Part 3: Flashback to Hawaii Summer of 2011

Dole Plantation

 

 Out front...Amelia is getting sick of pictures

 They had a fun little train ride for families

 

The Pineapple Express

Not many pictures of me cause I'm usually the one taking them.  Baldy Sam and I.

 We really enjoyed the Dole Plantation Botanical Gardens

 Bananas

 Impressive tangled roots going on here

 More roots 

 Giant leaf

 Doing what mommies do

 In the gardens

 Love the beautiful plant varieties and colors

 Cool phone tour

 Sample pineapple field

 These are teeny little things

 Even Natalie liked the phone tour

 Loved the red plants

 Pineapple heads

 Sugarcane...I think...

 Bubs and grandma

A delicious pork and rice and pineapple lunch

Part 2: Flashback to Hawaii, Summer 2011

Kualoa Ranch and Beach

 Ready to go...visors and all...grandma teaches Natalie about sun protection.

 Kualoa Ranch

 Waiting around for the tour bus

 The groovy bus

 All aboard

 Amelia discovers a love for horses

 She had no fear and was thrilled to be able to ride all alone.  She is 3 years old here.

 The animal lover in the family.

 Chinaman's Hat Island

 Godzilla's footprints (never did see that movie)

 WWII Military Lookout Points

 Yes, it was filmed here

 Didn't know goats could climb trees till I saw this guy

 And here is the real reason we went on the "come see where movies and TV shows have been filmed" bus tour....the mountains!

 So sleepy....love my squishy faced kids

 Name that movie?  (Maybe the TV show Lost?)

 A little bit of heaven

Natalie, 5 years old

 Remnants of the original sugarcane factory at Kualoa

Turtleback Island

 And one of my favorite views with turtleback and chinaman's hat

Ended the day with a visit to Kualoa Beach

Daddy to the rescue

 Smoochy grandparents...had to post for the rest of the family to see.  They were so happy and cute. :)

 Beach findings

 Karate Kid

 

 Day dreaming Natalie

 Her favorite thing to do at beach, lie in the waves

 Getting a little tanner here...maybe?  Ok, maybe not.  But we look happy.  I like this one.

 Goodbye Kualoa Beach.  You were good for us.