I know I said yesterday that our plan for today was to go to Hale’iwa and to Waimea Valley, but we decided to save that for later in the week. So this morning, after having breakfast in the Palm Terrace (side note: YES, this is a another Hilton, so the restaurants have the same names…) we left the hotel and headed South to Honolulu with the intention of visiting the USS Arizona Memorial, the USS Missouri, and the USS Bowfin. Upon arrival, we found out that both the USS Arizona Memorial and the USS Missouri are CLOSED! Apparently, the dock for the boats that take patrons out to the USS Arizona Memorial were broken and the USS Missouri was dry-docked. Hopefully, everything will be open again by Saturday, so we plan to try again.
Instead, we went shopping at Hilo Hattie’s Flagship Store - where Baba was nice enough to purchase a beautiful ring setting for my other lavender pearl for me – and then we headed back up North.
On the way up to Kahuku, we decided to spend the afternoon at the Dole Plantation. Baba, Andrew and I took a ride on the Pineapple Express, which provides guests an audio and visual tour of the history of the plantation and the Hawaiian pineapple and sugar industries. Afterward, Andrew and I went through the World’s Largest Maze (Listed in the 2008 Guinness Book of World Records)which I’d never done before. That was a lot of fun, and made Andrew and I want to do the Corn Maze in Wisconsin next fall!
When we’d finished having our fruity fun, we continued on to the North Shore and back to the hotel. We’d planned to meet Lita for dinner so we headed down to Lei Lei’s by the golf course on the property. She brought us all beautiful leis, and her son, Reggie, came along too. Lita had recommended this restaurant and I’m really glad she did! Andrew and Baba both had Mahi Mahi, I had herb-crusted chicken breast with a garlic cream sauce, Lita had seafood scampi and Bruddah had a steak. The food was excellent and the company was even better! It was fun sitting and reminiscing about our previous trips and catching up. We have plans to meet them for breakfast on Saturday too.
Tomorrow, we are going to the Polynesian Cultural Center. We have tickets to explore all the villages they have set up there, then we’ll have dinner at the Ali’I Luau and then take in the evening show Ha: Breath of Life. I’m really looking forward to this, I hear this new evening show is really amazing!!
Mahalo for reading! Aloha!
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