Day 9 - Dole, pools and Kapa painting
Am excited to say that I slept til 6am this morning. It must have been the luau drinks. Lol. It was another cloudy morning. Went to Ulu cafe to get a breakfast flatbread which we split and ate some of our fruit with. It was pretty tasty. I went to get in line at the Pau Hana room to sign up for Animation class. I was first in line and the cast member who was coming in to open up told me about the Hawaiian craft series class that night which was Kapa painting on a tote bag. We had been worried about carrying our purchases home so I called Kim and she came down and we signed up for it.
Then we headed out to Dole plantation.
Got there right before it opened and they had another Maui Divers there so I decided to do the pick-a-Pearl. I got a 8mm cream colored pearl. I was planning to give that one to my niece, unless I got twins. Kim didn’t do it then as they opened the store early. We briefly looked around and went to buy tickets for the train.
We passed the pineapple fields, cacao, sugar cane, etc.
loved the little garden at the back.
After the train we went to get a dole whip with pineapple. Yum! Then we decided to shop in the store a bit. I got a pretty watercolor print buy one of the artists in there and Kim decided to do pick-a-Pearl right next to her. I’ll be darned if she didn’t get twin pearls again. White ones this time, probably 8mm. I could not believe her luck. I headed over to another part of the store to buy something I had seen and some lady handed us keys to win a prize. Mine was a bust but she had given Kim one that worked for you guessed it - Another Pick-a-Pearl at Maui Divers. This time she got a black pearl but it was tinted red. Very pretty and she bought a plumeria pendant for it. I also got a free one so this time I got another white one that I set in a leaf pendant. I was done with that place. I remember seeing at least 5 stands at Dole. There could have been more.
We headed back to the resort so I could go to Animation class. I really enjoyed that. We drew Mickey and then painted a cel of either Mickey,Minnie or Stitch. I chose Minnie. Had never done the cel painting so was glad I did it. After class we headed to the Waialana pool bar for lunch and a drink in a pineapple. Lol. We couldn’t go to Hawaii without having a drink in a pineapple. We both got lava flows and headed to the beach to drink them.
we decided the water was too cold so sat in chairs to finish the drinks. Then we headed to the lazy river again. After a few rounds we went upstairs to change for the Hawaiian craft class
the lady who taught the class was really interesting. She did a lot of the art pieces around Aulani. She first sent us on a scavenger hunt to pick flowers and leaves. So we headed out and picked all different colors. She gave each of us a bookmark made from the bark of a wauke tree that she made and had us use the flowers and leaves we collected to put color on it. It was really neat using the color of the petals to see what color they would come out on the bookmark. She makes her own paper from the bark and her own dyes. She showed us how to get the bark off the limb and then pounded it to show how she makes it. It was interesting. Them she pulled out a bag of stamps and we picked 4 to use. She showed us how to get started and off we went.
I like mine but after the class I started noticing all the patterns all over Aulani and kept saying, oh I should have done this or should have done that. Lol. Overall it was a fantastic activity that I would recommend to anyone, even if you feel you aren’t crafty. Kim had never done anything crafty before and enjoyed it as well.
After class we headed to the room to get ready for bed. Tomorrow was southeast O’ahu.