Cindi made arrangements for one of those "sit through a sales pitch, and stay at our condo for really cheap" things. The place was really nice (two bedrooms, kitchen, pool, across the street from the beach) and the sales pitch wasn't too long or to forceful. This is a pic of a funny sign in the parking lot out in front of the place, warning you how dangerous the ocean is. "Never turn your back on the ocean!!!"
There's a huge tree down the street from the condo, and Cindi wanted a picture of herself in it.

One of the things to do in Maui is to drive the long road around the island to the town of Hana. It used to be a big farm settlement but now just a few people live there and it's a historic landmark. There's a lot of neat things to see on the way, and if you go about 3/4 of the way around the island, you reach this place called the Seven Sacred Pools.
A waterfall you pass while driving on the road.
An open field next to the road, with local and imported plants and the hills and ocean in the background.
There's a Hawaiian story of one of the kings of Hawaii who was very cruel. His wife, a young princess, fled from him and was hidden in a small cave with a pool. The roof of the cave bent down to almost touch the water, so you couldn't see anyone on the opposite shore of the pool. She hid here for a long time while he searched for her, and he finally found her by coming to the cave at night, for the pool reflected the light from her candle or torch. He killed her, and her blood stained the water red. And annually the water turns red (because of a local bacteria or fungus or something. Unfortunately, people in the years since this became a tourism site have decided to bathe or urinate in the pool, and it smells like urine. Because of the darkness of the cave and because no flash was used in the picture, you can only see me in the picture in front of a lot of blackness. But the pool's there, really.
The Seven Sacred Pools are actually a series of small lakes formed by a river running down the side of the Haleakala volcano. They're cold water (Haleakala is extinct) but most are at least the size of a football field. This picture was taken by me from the downstream edge of the last (highest) pool, and shows a bunch of people gathered by the waterfall.
This photo was taken by Scott. To get to the waterfall you have to make your way around a narrow rocky path near the water (if you slip, you'll fall in). The two people on the upper level, closest to the waterfall are Cindi and I.
This is a closer shot of Cindi, who got even closer to the waterfalls.
A tiny waterfall we saw in the distance from the road.

You can also drive up to a spot at the top of the Haleakala crater, which (if you count the fact that Maui is just a big mountain that extends underwater) is the tallest mountain in the world.
This is the crater view at dawn. A lot of people travel up to the crater to see the sunrise, it's really impressive. That white stuff in the center of the picture isn't mist, it's a big piece of cloud. It was VERY cold up there ... because of the altitude and the lack of wind protection, dawn at Haleakala crater is usually around freezing, no matter what time of year.

One of the places near the town where we stayed is Black Sands Beach, which is a very nice beach but also has some cool stuff to explore nearby.
A view of the beach from the cliff path leading down to it. Since Hawaii was formed by a volcano, all of this black rock is lava rock, and the sand is made from lava rock, too. That formation in the distance is a weird bridge of lava, you can actually swim under it (though I don't recommend it, as it's probably really rocky. I don't know who the lady in the foreground is, she wasn't with our group. Oh, and keep in mind that black bit of rock that marks the end of the beach on the right hand side....
There's actually a small tunnel leading from the main part of the beach, past that black outcropping of rock, to a very small area of beach that's separated from the main beach. I went through this tunnel, and only had to get down to a crouch-walk to get through (no actual crawling). Pretty cool.
Here's the really cool thing about Black Sands Beach: if you go to the south edge of the beach (it's boxed in by cliffs on three sides), there's a little path you can take upward. We only found it because we saw some other people coming from the path to the beach. If you take this path up, you'll walk near the top of the cliff and find all kinds of neat stuff, like this area of lumpy volcanic rock overgrown with ivy.
Along the path, we reached an amazing view with black rock cliffs, ivy, and clear blue water. Awesome.
In one place the path had an offshoot that went down to the water level. At the bottom was a little pool with dozens of crabs running around. Very cool!
The path ended at this incredible hidden cove. The shore was made of smooth round rocks instead of sand, there was a grassy area with trees nearby, and it was totally isolated. Cindi took this picture from the top of the cliff, just before where the path starts down to the cove. That's me on the beach with my arms out.
Same cove, except I'm on the shore taking a picture of Cindi at the top of the cliff.

If you go to Hawaii, you of course have to go to a luau. Unfortunately, we hadn't planned ahead, and had a hard time finding one on the night we had free. We finally found one at a hotel up the coast. I was driving that night so I didn't drink, but there were free drinks at the luau as well as free food (you paid an entrance fee to get in and see the show, which covered your meal and drinks). Cindi and Scott of course decided to spring for the extra $8 so they could drink their drinks out of a freshly-hollowed pineapple, and when they were done the went to town on the alcohol-soaked fruity part of the pineapple, too. I mean, c'mon, if the opportunity presents itself, you gotta drink out of a pineapple while you're in Hawaii, right?
Some local Hawaiians extracting the roast pig from the fire pit. No, I didn't have any roast pig (or local Hawaiians, for that matter).
Another photo of the unpigging of the earth.
They had a quick lesson in how to hula, and Cindi insisted that Scott learn. She of course took pictures. That's me and Scott on the leftmost side of the stage (stage right).
Another pic from the hula lesson.

One of the really neat things we did in Hawaii was go snorkeling (in fact, I liked it so much I did it again when Willow and I went 18 months later). They take you out on a ship with about 15 other people to a couple of different places (one for fish, one for turtles), give you the basics of snorkeling, and let you swim around with the fish. I actually have about 30 pictures from this, but most of them are just in blues and greens and I don't feel like doing hand color-corrections on all of them at this time. :P
One of the boat guys sits in the water on a surfboard, acting as lifeguard in case anyone needs any help. This is a shot of a bunch of fish swimming around under his surfboard.
A group of bright yellow fish.
The other side of the cluster of fish near the surfboard.
"Hello, I'm a dark-colored fish."
"Hello, I'm a gray-colored fish."