Lahaina

This is a fun little tourist town. Sort of reminds us of an the old Main Street Park City by the Sea. Their "Main Street" is called Front Street and is much longer than Park City's Main Street. It's filled with tourist gift shops, art galleries, eateries, activity booths where you can sign up for tours, more shops, art galleries, etc.
In the center of Front Sreet is a huge 100 year old Banyan tree which takes up almost the entire block.
The capsized boat was the end result of a Halloween party in 2004. I guess it just goes to show - too much partying can be a bad thing.

Parasailing!

How's the view from up there?

They even "dip" you in the ocean!

We ate at "Cheeseburger in Paradise". A fun Hawaiian atmosphere. The Burgers were great!



Now that's a double cheeseburger!

We also stopped at the Jodo Mission Buddhist Temple
The Buddha is 12 ft. high and the largest in the Western U.S.. It was built in 1968 for the Commerative 100th anniversary of the 1st immigrants from Japan in Hawaii. It was built to honor their herritage and sybolize the peace & unity of the people of Japan and Hawaii. This has special meaning to us because my grandfather was a Japanese immigrant, highly respected in the Hawaiian community, taken to internment camps Dec. 7, 1941 and who later became a citizen after Hawaii gained statehood. This has further meaning as Dylan studies and teaches in the Martial arts.