Thursday, June 23, 2005
Maui Trip with Garfield HS
41 Garfield High students + 7 chaperones + one 8-yr-old makes for a pretty hectic 2 weeks in Maui! Each of the chaperones drove a minivan, and we left no corner of the island unexplored, logging 752 miles on the vans. We had fantastic snorkeling, saw the sun rise over Haleakala and hiked down into the crater, took night tidepool walks, drove to Hana and around the east side of the island, swam in waterfalls, caught a luau, learned to surf, had a boat ride to Lanai, and bagged plenty of beach time.
Life at Camp Pecusa (where we stayed) held geckos, cockroaches, a resident mad scientist, orchids, one dance-interrupting centipede, spiders, plumeria, whales, and a cranky cuddly calico cat. The kids took turns cooking all the meals (with quite a bit of direction) and came up with crazy contests to establish which groups would get to eat first. We saw cross-dressing, strength contests, no-hands whipped cream eating races (with surprises), sun-burn whipping endurance (ouch), and more. Overall, and amazing 2 weeks of learning and living.
We just had our reunion/slideshow last week. It was great to see some of the kids again, and Darrin (one of the chaperones) gathered up pictures from everyone and put together a great slideshow. His website has a pretty thorough documentation of the trip - he takes some great pictures.Labels: snorkeling
