Trip Like I Do

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Time For Pictures!

I just thought I would do another little photo dump thing.

Blech!

Tubthumping

Can I help you?

This is Siam. Siam likes to eat birds. We know this because of all of the bird parts we find around the house sometimes - outside the house, not inside - ewww. I also have the photographic evidence to prove it.

I guess this just got introduced nationally. I don’t know how long it’s been out in Hawaii but I first saw it in the store the other day. It tastes like Coke Zero but it’s got vitamins. Vitamins you say?!!!??? Yup. Each serving has these percentages of the RDA for -

Niacin 15%
Vitamin B6 15%
Vitamin B12 15%
Magnesium 10%
Zinc 10%

I wasn’t sure if Hawaii was a test market for this Diet Coke Plus but I saw a commercial for it on TV, so I guess it is national. I was just curious since the stores here already carry Strawberries and Cream and Caramel Cream Dr. Pepper and those aren’t even listed on the Dr. Pepper website yet.

That DCP went awfully well with this -

Wasabi Nori Arare. YUM! Man that stuff had a bite to it. Now as much as I like healthy foods, I just have a total weak spot for foods that look ultra synthetic. I was completely in love with those colored ketchups. Remember those? The first one introduced was green and unfortunately they have been discontinued. I always wondered just how much food coloring was in those things.

2 comments May 3rd, 2007

Dole Family Fun Day

The Dole Plantation held a family fun day this past Saturday. The ad I saw for it said that it was free, so I decided to head on out there. The Dole Plantation is basically a man made tourist trap. It was built out in the middle of the pineapple fields as a way to get tourists to stop there on their way to the North Shore. I hadn’t been out that way in years so I thought I would check it out.

Sorry for the weird shadow.

Here’s the chocolate fountain that I didn’t get to try because I forgot. Doh.

OMFGBBQLOL!!1! Pineapple!

Haha

Okay, my real reason to go there was this. Up until 2001, it was the world’s largest permanent hedge maze. That title was then given to PeaceMaze in Ireland. I’ve never been in one of those kinds of mazes before so I really wanted to experience it.

It was quite interesting and a bit claustrophobic at times. It would have been really, really spooky if you could go exploring at night. I guess I felt that it wasn’t as hard as it could be because the maze was around a big center section and you basically always ended up in the big center section in order to move onto the next section, or so it seemed. One thing that was quite brilliant about it though was that they kind of made it into a game. On the back of each ticket there were 6 empty boxes and you were challenged to find 6 stenciling stations in the maze. I thought it was quite clever because after awhile, you just got tired of going around in the bushes. It gave you a sense of purpose to fully explore the entire maze.

Oh yea and while exploring, I noticed that there were a couple of places in the maze that were blocked off to other agricultural areas. Upon further observation, the agricultural areas were actually more hedges that were growing so they could expand the maze. of course, being a dufus, I forgot to take pictures of those areas.

Oh yea, and I saw a peacock on the grounds right before leaving!

Oh yea and one bit or irony about this whole thing. Dole no longer operates any pineapple farms in Hawaii. In fact, Del Monte even pulled out of the state, so I am pretty sure that there is no more commercial pineapple farming on Oahu at all anymore.

1 comment May 1st, 2007

Mad About Science

The Bishop Museum had a “Mad About Science” event at the end of March. What that meant was that instead of charging the usual $15, ($15!!!), per adult, they only charged $3 and had a bunch of booths set up. I headed down there since, heck, I could afford $3.

The Bishop Museum is a place dedicated to Hawaiian and Polynesian history and culture. There is a main hall with lots of Hawaiian artifacts. They even have a sperm whale skeleton, but that part was shut down for cleaning. There is a mini planetarium and they just recently built a children’s science center.