Slice of Life Day 21: We Love Front Street

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Today we are going to take a walk down Front Street in Lahaina, Maui.  This was one of our favorite places on this island. It was just fun to see the stores and watch the people.

We would walk down one side of the street and then up the other side. We parked at a small parking lot on a side street. Parking was very hard to find. We would use a credit card and slide it into a machine. There was no one there watching the lot.

 

Being a retired teacher, I got excited to see the King Kamehameha School right on Front Street. On one pass through the street, we saw parents lined up waiting for their children. Sure enough, not long after that, there were students coming out of the school with their teachers. The parents would meet them in the school yard and off they'd go talking about their day.

 

There was a huge banyan tree in the middle of one city square. It was so big actual activities took place under it. One day we saw an art show there. On an early morning when we were there, we saw the homeless just waking up and getting about their business of the day. It was like a town of it's own.

My favorite place on Front Street, of course, is the Lapperts ice cream/shave ice store. I had my first shave ice with ice cream there. We bought it in the store and then went outside and set beside the building watching the activities under the huge banyan tree.