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The view from the room in the morning is possibly even better than the view at night!
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The elevator mat for Wednesday.
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Another beautiful view from the room. I swear I'll try to cut back on posting these...
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In the afternoon, we rode on an ATV at Kahoma Ranch. Sadly, this was right after lunch and the ride was quite bumpy. This was the first picture we felt up to taking - at the halfway point, we stopped and had the op
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We didn't join in, but this guy did a number of times. Looked like fun!
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Note the immense amount of dirt on our clothes (loaners, luckily) and shoes. I thought they were being ultra-cautious when they insisted we wear bandanas and goggles. They were not.
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Even covered in dirt David looks cute :-)
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I, on the other hand, look prepared for a chemical attack.
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On the way down my arms got even more dusty!
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Later this horse decided it wanted to amble along the road. (and David snapped this excellent picture!) Notice the lack of ATVs in front of us - apparently the horse had no problem letting the other vehicles go by. Eventually he (or she?) moved on.
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Back to the hotel room to shower really well and enjoy the view. (sadly, my shoes stayed dirty and even passed along the dust to a few pairs of socks)
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In the evening, we went to the Old Lahaina Luau and...got lei'd.
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Before dinner and the show, we wandered around looking at some native crafts and skills.
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The site for the luau was quite pretty.
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The waiters made sure the pineapple supply never ran low!
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This guy was weaving palm fronds, I believe.
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As in the days of old, a pig was cooked in an imu (underground oven). Just before dinner they had a ceremony to take it out.
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Some hula dancers were pre-dinner entertainment.
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Dinner was buffet-style, and tried a lot of delicious things. The stuff in the cup is Poi, which was OK (very little taste, really) but not as bad as I had been warned.
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David's plate included the freakishly transparent rice on the left. I'm not sure if this is a traditional Polynesian way of cooking rice or what, but it looked cool and tasted good.
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The dessert plate was also good although not quite as good as dinner. From the outside: little pie thing with macadamia nuts, fudge brownies, coconut pudding squares, and chocolate with a passion fruit filling. I discovered I really like passion fruit,
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Another beautiful Hawaiian sunset.
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Unfortunately, once the sun went down it was very hard to get decent pictures. Here's an idea of the costumes, though.
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More hula dancing - sometimes only girls danced, sometimes only guys danced, and sometimes they danced together.
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Grass(ish) skirts!
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More guys dancing. I wish I had paid more attention to the story they were presenting.
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At the end of the night, we arranged our leis (which were apparently made out of orchids) for a nice picture.
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