Maui Day 2

We had signed William up to go parasailing, so we headed over to Lahaina harbor in the morning.  On the way out, Kevan and Ben got leid.

Grandpa signed up to go out on the boat with him to take videos and picture so we dropped them off and went to find parking.  We stopped by Burger King for breakfast, and then wandered down the harbor area watching the parasailers.

While we were watching, a grizzled local came up and pointed out a place to go look for shells.  He mentioned that if they found one like his (can't remember the name) to bring it back and he'd put a hole in it to make a necklace.  So we went to look for shells.

Kevan found a good one and we took it back to the guy (Terry as it turned out).  He worked on it for a good 20 minutes or so. 

He ended up carving a turtle into it, and putting a hole in it.

He was also making fish out of coconut leaves, and gave Ben one of those.  He said he could make birds, crickets, hats, etc. out of the leaves.

He pointed out an ancient birthing stone as well.

We wandered around the town of Lahaina for a bit while waiting for our submarine ride.  Check out the U.S. largest Banyan tree (all of those trunks are actully one tree, and that's only part of it! I think the sign said it shades an entire acre all together)

Then we went into the old courthouse to look around.  Kevan and Ben tried out the jail.

and I got a flower for my hair

Finally we got on the boat that would take us out to the submarine.

We got to see the sub come up to the surface with the people that had gone before us.  Here we are going down into the sub.

Once inside, we submerged to a depth up to 134 ft and traveled around the reefs looking at fish.  We had a couple great views of moray eels, and a sea cucumber, but mostly fish.  There was also a large sunken boat that had been intentionally sunk to create an artificial reef, as well as an anchor from the 1800s.  Unfortunately, it is hard to take pics from inside a submarine, but we got a few good ones.

After the sub ride and lunch at Hard Rock

(this was on the way to Hard Rock)

we headed up north to find Costco and Walmart for some supplies, and then back to Lahaina for the Ulalena show. 

This show was an amazing musical, dancing, acrobatic, mythological and real history of the islands.  Will has a friend at work whose son is the main dancer in the show (he was amazing!) and he got us tickets for free, including the "Producers Package" where we got to stay behind when the show was over to talk to the cast.

 
And here's me blogging in our computer lab, er, hotel room.

Yep, that's 3 laptops on the table, plus William's is in the other room.

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