Pineapple anyone?

We finally made it to the Dole Plantation.  We have passed by it about 10 times so far, and so finally on one of Kyle's days off we stopped.  The Dole Plantation has the largest maze in the world.  I didn't even know that because even though I have been to the plantation twice before, I have never been with kids, so we did the maze!

It took us an hour- not a great time, but we had a great time.  Emily, George and Evan split off from me and Kyle and Matty and we raced.
The kids won.

   

It was lots of fun, after the maze we went out to the car for lunch, Kay Shelton style.  

A little parking lot picnic with the chickens and we discovered the coolest trees we had ever seen.
They are called Rainbow Eucalyptus and the bark changes colors as it ages.

 We never get tired of the geckos, just like Jake Rogel never gets tired of the lizards at our house.

 St. George isn't on here, but we know it is a long long way away.

 They have lots of different varieties of pineapple in the gardens.  Matty loved the pink ones, Emily loved that little tiny one!

We took the train ride through the fields, but we had to wait at the station for a while.  Kyle sent George and Emily to get him a Dole Whip while we waited and they took this picture of us.

 

 This was a really cool giant purple flower at the bottom of a bunch of bananas.  I don't know if that flower turns into bananas, like the flowers on a strawberry plant, but it was really awesome looking.
He reminded me of the man eating plant on Little Shop of Horrors, I half expected it to lift it's head and ask me to feed him.

A row of coconut trees.  Small enough for Evan to climb maybe....but we couldn't get off the train.

I don't know why they had this giant koi pond, but the kids thought it was very entertaining, except George who felt sorry for them and engineered a new dock in his mind that would increase the feeding area and let the fish spread out more. :)

They really really do love Spam here- but this is just gross.

Another really really fun day.