PF: Cows & Waipio Valley

I mentioned a bit ago that I went to Hawaii with my mom about 4 years ago.  This was my favorite day of the whole trip and one of my most favorite memories of my mom.  It was right before she was diagnosed with cancer.  It was a fun, carefree day.  I saw her in a light that I never had before.  It seemed like she was a kid again.  Good times.  Good times.

We spent the day with her friends, Laenette and Lakme.  Lakme showed us around her ranch and then we headed out to Waipio Valley where Laenette and her family have a little taro patch.

Posing in front of Laenette’s home. I was pretty impressed. They run their home completely off of solar power. Pretty sweet. (L-R Laenette, Lakme, Lakme’s niece, my mom, my tutu)

Checking out Lakme’s garden

Do Hawaiian cows look happier than regular cows? If I was a cow, I’d want to live in Hawaii

Overlooking Waipio Valley

See that black thing in the bottom right corner? That’s the console/grill thingy on the 4 wheeler I was riding on. And my mom was driving! I never really thought of my mom as someone who would enjoy driving a 4 wheeler, but she loved it.

The “house” next to the taro patch.

There were guava trees everywhere. We just picked the fruit off the tree and ate it. It was tasty!

Apparently a scene from some Kevin Costner movie (maybe it was Waterworld? Not a Kevin Costner fan or I would know) was filmed on this beach at the mouth of the valley. Believe it or not, the water was pretty cold.