My name is Mitch Toda.  And this is a picture of my family at the Honolulu Airport on our first trip home to Hawaii after having moved to California.  I am the small kid in front with all of the leis around my neck.  I remember receiving leis whenever I went home to Hawaii each year.  As always there would be more than one; there were your flower leis, but my favorites were the candy and money leis.  As I grew up I would get leis less often, but when I did it was always for significant moments in my life: high school graduation, college graduation, and on my wedding day.