A New Week

Monday

What’s the plan? Where are we eating next? Yes, I know they are the burning questions. We’re all, all ten--nine of us, are headed up to the Grand Wailea for brunch--another must do while in Maui. (We lost one member to deep sea fishing. ) Best brunch on the island, and I dare anyone to prove me wrong. If I am, I’ll brunch there.

After filling our bellies, we headed out to Makawao. I noticed the absence of the pineapple fields. Apparently a few days before our arrival “they” announced that pineapple crops are not profitable on the island and they are abandoning the fields. So sad.

A really *exciting* thing, for some of us, was the piles of red dirt along Hanson Road by the sugar mill. DirtBoy is called that for a reason, you know.

My favorite shop in Makawao, can’t recall the name, has gone out of business. I’ve bought several items there over the years. Some of my favorite earrings and the fancy silver utensils that are shaped into different useful items… mine were bookmark holders that Deb Marlowe so loved at the RWA Literary Signing.


The highlight was seeing the glassblower make a jellyfish at Hot Island Glass. Hubby and I plan to go back and pick up some items later in the week.

And, of course, there’s the stop at Kamodo’s Store. Can anyone say creampuffs and donut on a stick?

After we got home there was a short rest period. Because we didn’t have lunch in Makawao, nor had we eaten since that morning at the Grand Wailea, we headed out to Cheeseburger in Paradise.

Mrs. DirtBoy, on her quest to collect paper umbrellas, couldn’t make up her mind between the Trouble in Cheeseburger and something else that we can’t recall. She ordered both, the one she liked was hers and the other one was DirtBoy’s. I stuck with the chi-chi and Hubby had a mai-tai AND beer. Well, someone had to try to keep up with our guests.

We ordered a round of puu-puus: “babies” cheeseburger sliders, cheesy fries, and the =real= reason we went there: coconut shrimp. It wasn’t a lot of food but we really didn’t need it. We took a little adventure. Mrs. DirtBoy saw what we ::thought:: was a drink in a magazine. The Crème Brulee-looking dessert was in a martini glass… which told us-girls it was a martini. It was served at Hotel Wailea. As it turns out Hotel Wailea is just down the street from the Kea Lani.

Hotel Wailea was mauka, toward the mountain, up on the side of Haleakala. We’d never been there before and this has been the only time that I’ve ever felt “under dressed” while on Maui. We ended up sitting at the bar, because we were going to have this Crème Brulee drink. They handed us drink and dessert menus. There were a lot of yummy things. We ended up ordering 2 Crème Brulee martinis, a tiramisu, and a chocolate martini. Our bartender Will suggested we get some coconut sorbet. He decided to send it out anyway, even if we didn’t order it, because if we didn’t like it HE’D eat it.

Another few minutes go buy and our drink, a chocolate martini, arrives. Then our desserts… the tiramisu, the four teacup-sized scoops of coconut sorbet, and two Crème Brulees in martini glasses.

The tiramisu was so delicious, the coconut sorbet, made in-house, was yum-yum-yum amazing. That was THE best Crème Brulee I’ve ever, ever had. Ever. The four of us had such a wonderful evening with our desserts. Yes, to die for! And we walked into the lobby to look around. It was a tall ceilinged, round room with a 180 degree window overlooking Wailea, Kihei, out past Kahalui to the ocean-a dazzling view.

Hubby and I are thinking of coming back when we're hungry... maybe sometime next week. 'Cause if dessert was THAT good… can you imagine what supper would be like?