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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Overlooking Honolua Bay, an amazing spot for snorkeling. \u00a0You hike about a quarter mile through gorgeous rainforest jungle \u00a0to get to the rocky beach. \u00a0Or, you can pay for a boat to take you there…we hiked in, and wouldn’t have it any other way!! <\/a> <\/a> We decided to drive around the west side of Maui, something we do every year. \u00a0the road narrows to a one lane, winding road. \u00a0This year, there were many more cars than in the past. \u00a0It was pretty stressful at times. \u00a0I think this drive is out of our system for a while. \u00a0I will miss, however, our yearly visit to Lorraine’s Shaved Ice, in the tiny village Kahakuloa. Lorraine runs a small business out of her garage, selling homemade banana bread and banana cream pie, \u00a0made from bananas in her yard. \u00a0She also sells shaved ice, and handmade quilts. \u00a0I found a little video that a customer made of her… Lorraine always greets us warmly, and guides the boys to the backyard, so they can play with her “weeds”, some kind of ground plant whose leaves close up when you touch them. \u00a0She also always asks if they remember her “alligator rock”, a rock formation on the side of a cliff that resembles an alligator head… <\/a>Wrapping around to the north part of the island, we headed for lunch at the Saigon Cafe, another spot we always try to go to every year… <\/a>I think I will end for now, and start another post… <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you were to ask what is are the three things you want to do on this vacation, the boys would say: 1. “Dress in our costumes and act out our characters on the beach…” 2. Drink out of a real coconut… 3. Go to a luau. As we were driving to our bodysurf beach, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-fun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784810,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784807\/revisions\/784810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\nLorraine’s banana tree…
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\nLorraine, showing ‘R’ her “weeds”…
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\nOverlooking Kahakuloa…
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\n<\/a>The flower collector…
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\n‘A’ asked for a fork…
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