Since our time here in Hawaii might be cut short, we've decided to start seeing the sights. It would be a shame to have lived here for a couple years and not have seen anything.
Today we went to the Dole Plantation with the Ikakoula Family. We drive by the plantation whenever we go to Walmart but have never stopped. There's a huge maze there as well as a train ride tour thing. So... of course the kids were super excited to go on the train ride. It was just a short 20 minute thing with some history of the Dole Company. It was really relaxing and Terina really enjoyed it.
After our train ride and a little bit of walking around we hit the maze. The maze at the Dole Plantation is the largest hedge maze in the world. The record for getting through the maze and to all 8 check points was 4 minutes. They had the top 5 times on a board so that if you finished between one of the top 5 times you got a prize. It's probably just some T-shirt. Needless to say it took us an hour to get through the maze. It was really fun though. We split up and went Guys against Girls. Siki and I took Terina and Nela and Kasala took Vaea. It was fun racing against them to find the 8 check points. It came down to the last check point and we were literally racing and pushing to get there. It was like our own Amazing Race. And.... although the boys got to the end first, Siki and I punched out first.... so I say we won.
After sweating through the maze we had some of their "famous" pineapple ice cream. It was way to sweet but tasted good after running around in the sun.
I can't wait until our next tourist outing!
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