ATV Adventure

Ohhhh, the dirt!!!

This ended up being the girls' favorite memory from our trip - an ATV adventure, riding in this quad through a dirty/muddy old pineapple plantation.

Going up and down hills, over rocks on the unpaved trails, tree branches hitting the vehicle - it seriously felt like we were with Indiana Jones, or on his namesake ride at Disneyland.

At one point, our caravan of 12 or so vehicles stopped, and we planted koa trees, a native Hawaiian tree, on the former pineapple plantation.
 

So dirty. 

Stace took the wheel for the first half of our two-hour tour, with Cora as his wingman, and then Violet and I moved up front. The girls were concerned I'd be overly slow and cautious, but I proved them wrong! (The way the trails are, it's a fun and bumpy ride no matter how fast or slow you go!)

We circled up near this pond for one of our leaders to give us a talk on the history of the area. The pineapple farmers would plant a grove, place black plastic on the ground under the trees to preserve the rain, and then when the trees were less productive four years later, bulldoze it all under. We were driving over bits of plastic decades old.