SUNDAY MEMORIES
Judy Wills
Reblogged
After a good night’s rest, we were ready to start our Hawaiian adventures!
First off, we went to the Maui Ocean Center – a really neat aquarium and sealife center.
Fred’s dad and Judy
We enjoyed everything about it…especially the to-life-sized bronze tortoise – and with eggs! – near the entrance to the center.
The center contained all the things one might expect in such a facility – a living reef, a surge pool, a turtle lagoon, a touch pool, sharks, whales, and how the Hawaiian’s related to all of it. Most fascinating. We spent several hours there.
Next, we went into Lahaina proper to see the city and all it holds. One of the most interesting sights is a huge banyan tree. It was planted in 1873, and has grown so that it’s limbs cover the entire city center. Many of the limbs need to have supports so they don’t drag the ground. It is over 60′ high, and covers more than 2/3 of an acre. It was planted to mark 50 years of Protestant missionary work in Lahaina.
Next we saw the Baldwin Home. It was built in 1834 as the home for Dwight Baldwin, Protestant medical missionary to Lahaina. The house served as a medical office, and the general center for missionary activity from mid-1830’s to 1868.
We saw the ruins of the brick palace of King Kamehameha 1. The footprint seemed really tiny, but the accompanying legend shows it to be a two-storied thatched building. So I guess important guests were more impressed than we were. It was built near 1800, one of the first western buildings on the island, and the bricks were locally made.
We saw ruins of the old fort.
We went into Lahaina proper and to the waterfront. A cruise ship was in port that day, and we watched as the ferry brought tourists from the ship to Lahaina, as the port isn’t deep enough for the ship to anchor right at the harbor.
We saw the Ko’a Fisherman’s Shrine along the harbor, as it faced Molokai.
As we walked along Front Street, we saw some young men tossing literally dozens of Mahi-Mahi into the back of a pick-up truck. Amazing.
A good day in Maui. This was such fun for us. Something we shall never forget.
~~~~~More to come~~~~~
Judy is living in Central Florida with her retired U.S. Air Force husband of 50+ years. Born in Dallas, Texas, she grew up in the Southwestern United States.She met her husband at their church, where he was attending the university in her town. After college and seminary, he entered the Air Force, and their adventures began.They lived in eight of our United States, and spent six years in Europe, where their oldest daughter was born. She was a stay-at-home mom for many years .
Judy has always been involved with music, both playing the piano and singing. Always interested in exercise, she was an aerobic dancing instructor, as well as a piano teacher for many years, and continues to faithfully exercise at home.
After moving to Central Florida, she served as a church secretary for nearly nine years.Her main hobby at this point in time is scanning pictures and 35mm slides into the computer. She also enjoys scrapbooking.She and her husband have two married daughters and four grandchildren, including grandtwins as well as a great-grandson and a great-granddaughter. She and her husband enjoy the Disney parks as often as possible.
How much we labor in our prayer time has nothing to do with Labor Day. Recently while a pastor taught this topic, some of us squirmed in our seats.
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