Tuesday, September 15, 2009

The Pineapple Plantation and World's Largest Maze



Most days Evan gets a choice of what he would like to do.  To be honest, we alternate these days with actually going to the beach, but even on beach days he gets to do something fun like bring his monster trucks to drive in the sand or have shave ice on the way home.    Today was a "let Evan pick the activity" day.   He chose to go to the Dole Plantation to ride the Pineapple Express.   It's about a 20-minute train ride through the pineapple fields where you get to see how pineapples are grown, some of the equipment used, and some of the workers out in the fields.  


Once the train ride was done, we decided to try the "World's Largest Maze,"  over 2 acres of maze constructed of 14,000 Hawaiian plants with 2.46 miles of paths.   In Ohio in the fall we have mazes constructed out of corn fields, but most of these are self-correcting--you can't really get lost.    This maze was huge, came with a teeny-tiny map to follow, and had 9 different stations to find throughout the maze.   Jon, leading the way, had to ask me for directions to get through.    We only made it to 4 stations before deciding it was too hot and the largest part of the maze would probably take too long considering the heat.   Evan, however, had a great time running and chasing Jon through the maze.  We ended the visit with a Dole Whip and headed home.