Thursday, June 18, 2026 // Day 11
Aaron’s parents had to drop off their rental car this morning, and since we had added another day on to ours, we drove into Kahului to pick them up and bring them back to Lahaina.
Then we headed back into town to check out the mall. We didn’t find anything we were looking for there, but I did pick up a Hawaii bookmark from the ABC store. We went to the Safeway to grab some food to grill for dinner. I also grabbed a couple more bags of Hawaiian Sun pancake mix to bring home!
After taking the groceries home, we went to the taco truck down the street that we didn’t get to eat at on Tuesday. I ordered two fish tacos and Aaron ordered one fish, one shrimp and one barria taco. Oh my goodness. They were delicious! I’m just mad we didn’t eat there earlier in the week so I would have time to go back! We checked out the shop that was down the path and were hoping to check out the pie place but the line was so long and we were anxious to go back to the pool.
The afternoon was spent poolside as we alternated between scorching sun and clouds. Aaron spotted an animal across the yard, and I had mentioned that Ike and I had seen some on our hike last week but weren’t sure what they were. I googled it and learned that it was a mongoose! Apparently they were brought to Hawaii in the 1800s to help control the rat population that was eating the sugar cane. The plan kind of backfired however because 1) rats are only a small part of the mongoose diet - they also eat birds, which ended up harming their nene population - and 2) the mongoose is awake during the day whereas the rats are nocturnal. Mongoose are now considered an invasive species in Hawaii and are on every island except Lanai and Kauai.
We had another night of grilling for dinner - potatoes, garlic bread, shrimp skewers, steak, rice and hot dogs.
We were blessed with one last Maui sunset before we settled in for the night!
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