This week we stopped off on the Western side of Maui in Lahaina.

Lahaina is an absolutely fantastic and gorgeous place. Set at the base of a couple of huge mountains, it's a quaint little town that offers up all kinds of shopping and restaurants.
Front street is reminiscent of the store lined shops that we found in Bermuda and Bar Harbor. Lots of local shops and dining.

There were no WalMarts, Borders or McDonald's to be found. (I'm sure they are there. We just couldn't fine them.)
We have been to Lahaina before, but it was in the evening and weren't able to take in a lot of the historical places.
This time though, we immediately jumped in and took a tour of the Baldwin House Mission.

It was here that we saw the scariest doll that I have ever seen.

This thing is over 100 years old. Terrifying.
Afterward we picked up a map for a self guided walking tour of the historic places of the town. It was a hot, sunny day and looked like a good day to walk around. We saw all sorts of cool things.

It's the idol from the Brady Bunch episode in Hawaii!

This is the old jail.

The walls were made of coral.

This is a list of the crimes that were committed back in 1904-1906. 89 people were arrested for Furious Riding. I guess that means never drive drunk or angry.

In the corner of the jail yard they had some birds caged up. (Get ready for a bad joke.) I guess they were jail birds. (Seriously, that would have killed here on the ship!)

Jeannie made friends with the birds and got them to talk. If you want to see video of Jeannie talking to the birds you should go to Chris' blog.
We then walked around some more and saw some more cool things.

I like this picture. It's Mark smoking next to a "no smoking" sign that is hidden behind a plant. He never saw it.
We were a little scared to see this.
At the bottom you can see the Dharma Initiative has their own bible study here. (You'll only get that if you watch Lost.)
The tour ended at the courthouse and we saw this our favorite Banayan Tree.
This one was planted in 1873 and is 60 feet wide. It has stretched out so far that it now has 16 trunks.

After our full day of touring we headed back to the ship. As we waited to get back on we watched the sun set over the water.

After the sun had faded away the sky had a pinkish blue tint to it.

It was quite a fun day.