Ever since the first day I glanced at our Lonely Planet book I had one thing picked out that I really, really wanted to do: go to the Dole Plantation and do the world’s largest maze that happens to be shaped like a pineapple! If you go HERE you can see an aerial view.
But the excitement didn’t stop there. Oh no. Pineapple education is a fascinating thing. I love pineapples.
Tourist photo:
Here I am being excited and looking like I haven’t slept in 3 weeks…Yikes:
Pineapple plants only make 2 pineapples in their whole life! That’s crazy.
I had no idea how pineapples grew; they just come straight out of the top of the plant:
SO CUTE!!
Me and the pineapple:
They had a BUNCH of different varieties. I had no idea so many existed. (the one on the bottom left kind of scares me)
More pineapple education:
Together in the same photo thanks to the magic of Photoshop:
This is one of the coolest tree trunks I’ve ever seen:
We did not take the Pineapple Express.
The maze!
Inside the maze:
You had to find 6 stations that had stencils to prove you mastered the maze. It actually took a long time and we cheated just a little bit.
When we finally got out, we got some pineapple ice cream. YUM:
ENTIRE FIELDS OF PINEAPPLES, PEOPLE. Amazing.