The Hughes Zoo

We were all pretty exhausted after our day in Honolulu, but for some reason none of us slept well. We were all pretty excited about Maui though, because we had tickets for a submarine tour in the afternoon.

To give Will a chance to catch up on some sleep he and Ange stayed aboard for his morning sleep while Jeremy and I caught a tender to the island. Unfortunately the tender system is pretty slow and annoying, so we didn’t get there until almost 11am, and needed to be back on the ship for lunch at midday. So after a quick look around we jumped back on a tender and met Ange and Will for lunch.

Jeremy was taking his sweet time getting ready, so  I told him about the submarine to get him motivated. It worked a treat, except from then on he was constantly worrying about being late for the tour (not surprisingly, seeing as he still remembers that we missed the glass bottom boat tour in Bora Bora). Once we had caught a tender back to  Maui again, and Ange had had a bit of a look around, we decided ice cream might be just what was needed to take his mind off things. We found this great little place with fantastic ice cream which cheered us all up no end. Until we went to get on the sub..

The description of the tour seemed to imply that, although children had to be over 3ft, infants would be fine. Once there though the tour operators said that the 3ft rule was for everyone, so of course Will was too small. We were pretty upset because we’d all been looking forward to it, Ange and I since Sydney. In the end I took Will back to the ship for his afternoon sleep while Ange and Jeremy went on the sub. From  all reports it was fantastic, except that they played loud music when they surfaced, which scared Jeremy a bit.

Despite the disappointments it was still a great day.

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