OK, that's cool. Go ahead & call me self centered if that's what flips your switch. I never said anything about the world owing me anything. Not sure where THAT came from but whatever. I still say if I have EVERY INTENTION of returning to the pool as soon as I can after stepping away for a bit then I don't feel like I should have to PACK up and MOVE. Why is grabbing a bite to eat at the Ulu Cafe for lunch any different than going to the lagoon / beach for 45 min. or an hour or running into the laundry room to move a load of laundry from the washer to the dryer and then run it back to your villa later when it's done? Would you really pack up everything and move 5 or 6 times during the course of the day if you were going back & forth from the pool to the lagoon or to the laundry room multiple times throughout the day? I really don't think my DH and DS would tolerate it very well either. I can see it now. I'm hungry Mom. OK, let's pack up all of our stuff and we'll go to the cafe and then we'll come back and hawk around and leer over other guests for new chairs after our sandwich. Yeah. That's not gonna fly so good with my guys. Would it make you feel any better if I said that we'll plan to split up and eat and swim in shifts so that we can leave 1 family member "on guard" at the chairs at all times?! If that is what makes you happy then that's what we'll do. Just to make everyone else happy. We will split up and we will guard our chairs with our lives.
Like I said in a previous post, it's not like I am planning on going down at 7:00 am to put my stuff down to hold a chair while I am going to the North Shore for surf lessons with the intention of not even getting there until 10 or 11:00. That is NOT what I'm planning to do. I do tend to MOVE arouond tho during the day.
RE: renting a cabana - ummmm, well, last year we had plans to rent one for 2 days then THIS year they raised the prices and we can't really afford it so much (had lots of residual medical bills from DS's 2 lung surgeries because of COURSE they had to fall under 2 diff. deductible years plus I then had about $3k in unexpected car repair bills since April. Minor things to keep it up & running like exploding radiators bad heater cores & stuff. So I'm really not feeling the urge to splurge too much this go around - although I DID go ahead & reserve 1 for our last day in hopes we can swing it. However when I called to reserve it they said we were already like 5th on the list. Since they are assigned first come / first served they couldn't guarantee if we can get one of the 4 in the main pool area even tho that's what I requested (the 4 people already on the list ahead of us hadn't put in a request for a specific location so they don't know what they'll want but they get first dibs). So we will have to wait until we are there to see what happens with that to see if we can get one of the main ones or not. DS is only 17 so he isn't old enough to go to the adult area ones and I'm not going to spend $300+ to sit in the little kids splash play area if that's all that's available. That's just not a practical use of what spending money we have. So the whole cabana thing at Aulani may just be a bust for us this year. I am planning to get one at the Sheraton on Maui for our last day once we get over there - they take reservations at 30 days out and they're only $75 / day (which sure beats the heck out of $300+). But our flight home that night is at like 9:30 or something like that so it will be worth it to have a "home base" for the day.
OK, NEXT? Who else wants to sling some mud at me?
