A Full Day In Oahu Hawaii - Dole Plantation Train Ride / Coffee Farm / Waterfall Trek & Sea Turtles
Oahu Hawaii September 2023
Transcript
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today's adventure begins from balcony
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here the hotel room my mom and I are
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staying at Disney's Aulani resort as a
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recording of this it is Wednesday
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September 27th
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2023
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got the Lazy River down below here
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you got the volcano themed water slide
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and
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of course the ocean off in the distance
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got a few things on the agenda gonna get
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in the rental car
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and head out and explore Oahu a little
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bit to that all right when out of the
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resort had to do a quick little U-turn
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and gonna make a 20 or 30 minute commute
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or we do our first stop
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getting a side angle here of Aulani
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23 miles
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to a coffee Farm first stop I arrived at
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the stop for a stop
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coffee Farm here off in the distance got
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the mountains over there
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clouds and it is sprinkling a little bit
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so a little bit of inclement weather at
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the moment but it might clear up welcome
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everyone Adam the woo here yes raindrops
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are falling on my head I am wearing a
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Magic Band because this is what gets me
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into my room adelani and I have this on
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as well so I've got
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things on two wrists my mom is already
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very excited she is going inside to get
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out of the elements
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there's a helicopter going by doing a
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few things today doing this I believe
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it's called Green World coffee Farm
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first and then we're going to the Dole
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Plantation which is just up the road
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from here and then we're gonna go see a
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waterfall mom wants to see some
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waterfalls we're gonna do that I'm
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inviting you
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to join me
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in Hawaii shall you
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Espresso Bar facilities gift shop free
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samples
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retail Cafe
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it's a very unique looking trees over
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there too
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there's double trees
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I'm guessing this is not a parking spot
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that way you can leave this accessible
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to walk in and I can already smell the
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coffee kind of has a burnt flavor to it
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so this guy it's probably got to be kind
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of a strong against small look there is
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a chicken down here and you can walk
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into the coffee
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Farm garden over here
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the Key West has all the chickens all
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there's no beans on this golf if we
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didn't go to sleep
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all over the place down here
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I'll show your Dole Plantation t-shirt
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you got on we're going to be going next
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so you went there
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when you were here a few years ago you
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and Dad were on your 50th wedding
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anniversary yes so you've been there but
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you haven't been to this spot or did you
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see a waterfall last time you were here
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do you see any waterfalls we're gonna go
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to Waterfall today
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this is where all the magic happens is
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where
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coffee beans come from ground up
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put into a piping hot caffeinated
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beverage
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are you see some yeah right there coffee
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beans
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and there's the red ones over here I
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guess there's the rifles
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I don't know interesting
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did you ever work with coffee when you
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were younger
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you worked in tobacco field right in
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Virginia
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walking through there oh yeah look at
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all these on here yeah
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yeah so those are coffee beans
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right there yeah it's almost like a clay
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for the grounds like a clay Style
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not a red clay it's like a brown clay
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okay from here we're gonna walk back
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inside
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to the coffee shop itself so it's
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basically the farm is out here but then
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inside they have you know a lot of
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paraphernalia and they have merchandise
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they have T-shirts a little knickknacks
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that you can purchase souvenirs things
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along the wall that you can look at all
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about caffeine with some caffeine a
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little hot caffeinated beverage I'm in
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the right place a lot of different
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coffee companies in in the state of
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Hawaii you know on all the different
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Islands this one just happens to be in
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Oahu where we are we're doing a lot of
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Oahu stuff over this week and this is
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one of them and I probably would drink
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more than one cup of coffee while I'm
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here so I might try some other spots too
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but for now this is the one first one
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that I'm stopping off off site
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of the Aulani resort you can see tire
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marks with the clay out here that brown
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clay that guess looks more red clay in
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the rain so it rained a little bit
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harder now so I ended up getting a 12
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ounce cup it had free samples I tried
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the samples oh it tastes pretty good
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and ended up putting it was it was a
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little strong
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well it'll say bit of a little bit of a
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burnt
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flavor to it which is good you want like
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a little you want a little bit of a
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little bit of that Vibe going on but I
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put just one cream and one sugar in this
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man it tastes good like the flavor with
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just one cream one sugar in a 12 ounce
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the flavor is really really good when
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you add in a little bit of sweetener and
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a little bit of cream and one of my
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favorite things about inside here is
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they have a lot of really cool photos on
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the wall of some celebrities even some
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you know iconic monsters and
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former presidents things like that
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drinking coffee on the wall and they're
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like they collected it over the years
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and it put it on side the wall of the
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green World coffee Farm building
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which I thought that was kind of neat
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when you're kind of shopping around in
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there the the stuff on side the wall on
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the walls is just kind of fun to look at
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and I ended up getting a cup I ended up
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getting a cup of coffee and I ended up
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getting a sticker you're wrong
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I break it and I don't like it a yawn is
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a silent scream for coffee
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so the only sample that they had
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the sample I tried mom was just telling
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me how my grandpa said if you if you try
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black coffee you'll never go back to
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having cream and sugar and she disagreed
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with that she likes cream and sugar
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but I put a little cream of sugar and
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mine was pretty good but it was a little
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it was a little bitter without the cream
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and sugar so evidently they have seven
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acres off site
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are over here that they
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put the they have as a farm as well the
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little walk-through area that we walk
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through
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was only just a little sample but the
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only one they make on site was the one I
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just got which is like the House Coffee
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the other samples they make somewhere
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else so I got the one that they made on
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those trees that we saw walking through
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the little little section and just one
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short mile away
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the Dole Plantation
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and yes when my coffee is consumed and
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finished I will be getting
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a Dole Whip
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oh there's a train here
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there's a train I can hear it I got the
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main building right there and around
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back it looks like is where the
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attractions are you got pineapple Garden
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Maize Pineapple Express
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and Plantation garden tour
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oh that sounds pretty dang good
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I really want to ride the train the Dole
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Plantation started back on July 28 1900.
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the reason I know that it states it
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right above the door there in small
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lettering and I must say there are a
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healthy dose of mosquitoes out here I
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can
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you feel them feel something
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I felt like three or four mosquitoes
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just like crawling on me
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probably after the rain yeah so it's one
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of my leg now down here
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if there's a mosquito anywhere it's
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going to find me look at this Danny's
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not here Mrs Torrance to try to get him
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off my legs yeah
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let's go inside
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let's pull it again to the station uh
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the Dole train Dole Plantation train the
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train wait time is three samples guys
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yeah people online for the train so they
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said out front it might be an hour wait
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for the train so I don't know this is
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the line to board the train
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I remember this is the garden tour
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foreign
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tickets right over there this is the
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line waiting for the train
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what is it pineapple glazed cashews I
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have it right you want to purchase more
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thank you
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oh I got some tickets for the train and
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got some tickets for the garden tour
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they said probably wouldn't be wise with
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the rain that just came through to do
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the to do the maze so they talked us out
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of that more or less I probably wouldn't
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be really muddy so these are the rules
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for the Pineapple Express train tour the
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posted train times racer base of
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approximate time you need to stay in
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front of the line
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please make sure the entire party is
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here Trent last train departs at 5 PM no
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food and drinks are allowed on the train
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so no Dole whips on the train they said
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it's going to be about 25 minute wait
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before getting on the train it just
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started sprinkling again
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now we kind of have two trains on the
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track they're about 10 to 15 minutes
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apart you're in line for a 30 minute
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ride nice there unless we have to all be
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together before we go up there so no
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wandering off okay and I'll stay next to
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me I'll be good it's a 30-minute train
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ride I know that's a long trip do you do
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the train ride last time
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all we did we just saw this
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look around making our way on one of the
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two trains Lady Liberty
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a tag you've got yourself a genuine gold
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pineapple grown right here in the island
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some high amounts of oxidized iron
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which in turn causes the reddish tins
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that's because fresh pineapples contain
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the enzyme bromelain
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all right I don't want to say that that
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was
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unexciting but I definitely was not the
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most thrilling train ride I've been on
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do you want to say it was it was
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unexciting
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you didn't like it right
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I think even if it was in season felt
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like we were just on a big advertisement
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for a band that was selling their CD in
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the store oh yeah
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it was cool taking a train ride but I
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don't know if I'd recommend paying the
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money to do the train that's just me
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you really just want to see
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stuff growing that's not in season
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obviously if you're in the timer that's
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in season it's different though
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it wasn't too stoked on the train it was
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kind of neat seeing all the different
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plants bananas cacao chocolate coffee
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of course pineapple the narration was
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set to to music and then they kept
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talking about a CD that was for sale for
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five dollars in the gift shop I do have
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this little photo up here it's probably
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gonna eat Pineapple Express Dole
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Plantation Aloha and I ended up
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snapping a little photo here
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I had someone take a photo of us in the
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doe whip that's making me hungry I do
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love a good door oh there's a bunch of
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Fishtown names big koi
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or even little tiny ones in there too
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that's a goldfish but they're huge what
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are they goldfish goldfish gold oh gold
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I have Dole on the brain
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they're under the Army I don't know
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maybe
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a fish aficionado
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about an Aficionado all right so where
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the Train Drops off we can now walk
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around
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where the plantation tour is
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kind of at our own pace
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so you do have a pretty long line like
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from there we waited probably about a
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half hour
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but from the end of that line it
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probably another 15 minutes
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what's the demonstration
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yeah
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you know the kind of seasoning that's on
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there you know what kind of seasoning
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there I don't either
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every time a bell rings someone eats a
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piece of pineapple
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you'll meet your blind shirt all three
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counters serve all the menu items at all
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of them this is what we're dealing
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you can get tubs of it there but then
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you also have the traditional style in a
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cone in a cup with the topping so we're
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gonna get the number three with the with
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the pineapple and the soft serve in
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there as well they also have other other
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options
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well look at this one it's in a
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pineapple
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pineapples wow
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over this put the pineapple and they put
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everything inside the spoon
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let's just get three of those let's get
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three of those we'll share I don't think
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so all right this is what we're dealing
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with right here it's interesting it
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doesn't say Dole Plantation on the front
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of the package it says Hawaii Plantation
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sure does
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that's very interesting yet it's sold
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the Dole Plantation store
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okay you have the old plantation shirt
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appropriate color it's the same logo
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though oh you know what's interesting so
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your shirt has a dull logo on the front
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of it even on the top up here they have
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removed it from the little top of the
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door fry interesting yep
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rainbow of the ringing I hear the
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trainer coming
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around the bed
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um
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it does have a little flavor that red
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stuff red powder
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yeah remember what it was called I read
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it to you but I don't some Hawaiian name
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oh yeah
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you're right though the pineapple does
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taste a little better here in Hawaii
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than it does
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oh
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okay maybe because it's fresh just right
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there you just go over there and grab a
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fresh pineapple
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slice it up and put it on you're not
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buying it at a store taking it home
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cutting it up
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it's as fresh as you can get
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there's a cap can you tell the
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difference between this pineapple and
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the pineapple you get it to Disney World
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this is better
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then again I don't really get a lot of
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actual pineapple at Disney World when I
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get the Dole Whip I don't usually get
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the pineapple chunks on it oh you know
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I think
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you love it it's great
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refreshing I want to get a brain freeze
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by eating it too quick though
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did you have a doe up last time you
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dried over here
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you sure did
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also we've got on
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the train they gave us this little
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postcards a little souvenir here
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Hawaii's complete pineapple experience
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operate as a food stand began in 1950
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open to the public as the Hawaiian
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Pineapple Express in 1989. one of the
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most popular visitor attractions here on
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this Hawaiian Islands I wonder how many
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people even needs postcards
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I think it's more of just a collectible
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I mean most people don't even send mail
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snail mail anymore nope yeah there are
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lots of cats all over the property
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little kittens here adult cats and like
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probably a dozen of them or more like
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they even have merchandise in store that
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have cats Dole Plantation cats on them I
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have now started walking into the
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plantation garden tour
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there we go there it is plantation
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garden tour
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this is a fan palm it's the least fan
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upward
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so see how it looks like a fan
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nice
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that worked out pretty well when I was
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at the top of that little Overlook the
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train was coming by and I got a little a
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little toot
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from the train conductor that was nice
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here's a little information about the
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man that started it all Mr James
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Drummond
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Dole he arrived in Hawaii in 1899
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bought a 61 acre tract of land here
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where he established his first pineapple
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plantation
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he was not the first person to grow
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pineapple in Hawaii but he was the first
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to realize its tremendous potential
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there's Mr Dole right there look at the
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size of those pineapples yeah I got some
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lily pads over there from this angle and
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the waterfall there's a couple fish down
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in there too that are submerged down a
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little bit farther it's very beautiful
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this whole little garden through here
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the root system of these are pretty
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interesting or maybe it's not the root
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system but at least like the part of the
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tree that kind of comes down to the
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ground itself oh it does bear fruit up
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here
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I don't know what that is either
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that is definitely some sort of
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I don't know
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one of these three things
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yeah there's a better angle of it right
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there oh there's like a close-up of it
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there's a few more
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up top as well kind of hard to see
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they're kind of in the shadows but
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pretty interesting looking though pretty
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it's like the size of it like a
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basketball pretty big whatever
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also there's a big water tank over there
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look at that big ones too yeah of course
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the birds of paradise this always
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reminds me of the Tiki Rich Hannah tiki
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room and these are singing
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that's the name of the the name of the
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plant is birds of paradise I guess is a
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technical name of it because they look
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like birds in Paradise
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man these are nice
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that's cool
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I'm just gonna time that tuck with this
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octopus
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it's amazing
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so when I asked him to sign the back I
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thought he was going to take a sharpie
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and sign it but he put his name tapa
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and put the date stamp on there's a 2023
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so this is supposed to give we're
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supposed to reward protection
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strengthen something else
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told me the explanation of it so pretty
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interesting so I have a little handmade
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souvenir this was sixty dollars so it
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would tax like 63 bucks
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there's probably I don't know a couple
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hours to make that maybe I don't know a
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long time the bigger ones I mean I'm
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sure he's got it down to a science but
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but still
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even if it took an hour I was pretty
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skilled
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so I'll put this on my
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my shelf celebration got another I got a
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little souvenir from Hawaii
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okay we found a parking spot along this
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road
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we are now right along where the waves
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are crashing on the beach here I believe
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this is the North Shore or close to it
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something in the water down there
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sure is look at that
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where'd it go it's down there somewhere
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there he is there he goes he's over
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there somewhere
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think of more than one there's a couple
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of them all right all through here are
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turtles they're a sign saying sensitive
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habitat
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and signs saying say 10 feet from the
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turtles but everyone's down here
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photographing the turtles it was very
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busy road a lot of people
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pointing taking photos myself included
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yeah it's tough to see them there oh
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this took his head out
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they do a little surfing too pretty neat
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they are definitely drawing quite the
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congregation of people out here
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trying to get some photos of them
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also over there as well we're just right
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here in this little Cove
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quite the stanchion set up through here
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too to get back to the car
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you got
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concrete pylons there
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I guess these water barrels here cars
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driving on that side
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we're walking on this slide back to the
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rental car all right we just parked just
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about a half a block from here walking
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up to the Waimea Valley Visitor Center
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home of the most gargantuanly amazing
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tree ever look at this thing
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just engulfing The Visitor Center how
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many trees that big have you seen before
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I think it's huge
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the biggest tree you've ever seen
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electric vehicle
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going up the side of the mountain
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there's 25 admission to the bat the the
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valley
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attractions there should be Gardens and
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whatnot but then also 20 round trip so
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I thought it was going to be like more
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of a you know what he could always hike
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up the side of the mountain or yeah
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very very tropical oh here's some little
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hunts here too
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all right off the little shuttle now
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getting a good view of it from here
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and get a little closer than this
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obviously but this is a this is the
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first glimpse
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from the distance here
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it's like there's a some
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merchandise stands and souvenirs over
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there too most likely
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oh yeah it's starting to come down now
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tropical elements
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caution submerged rocks no jumping or
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diving in the pool however it looks as
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if you can swim down there you can rent
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a life vest and swim right up to the
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base of the falls itself
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that's neat pretty good sized Falls
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probably
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60 feet maybe 80 feet it's hard to tell
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and based on the people that are down
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there
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maybe even yeah probably 50 50 feet
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maybe people just do it just to say we
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did it
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Peterborough bathing suits we could have
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done it
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no come um do it but someone don't so
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you don't never know
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it's skinny dip I don't think so why
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would Simmons game yeah all right I got
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a couple photos here got a selfie style
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and then took a photo of another couple
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that was out here and then they we took
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a photo of them and then they returned
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the paper and took a photo of us so that
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one turned out pretty good right there
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with the waterfall in between both of
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them
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what I want right there oh yeah that
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would not end well
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they do have a big net up here like a
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big heavy duty
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net
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to stop some of them
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an ever-changing natural wonder this is
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it when there's been the heaviest amount
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of rain water
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and this is kind of minimal to what we
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just saw and here is when they didn't
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have a lot of rain back in 84-92 it was
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a slow trickled stopped flowing entirely
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during some extreme droughts
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we were kind of like a halfway point
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seeing it like that in there
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oh 45 feet okay so I think I said 50 or
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60.
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I'm gonna guess this is probably used in
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a movie
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yeah but there's a bunch of movie uh
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things down there as we walked in on the
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I'm one of all those movies were made
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here I saw that it was in the vowel said
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that it was in the valley it didn't
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specifically say the waterfall
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but just in this particular Valley but I
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can't imagine a movie company being here
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and not using this
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in something
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I wonder if Magnum PI ever
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stood in front of this
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I'm gonna my my mind he did
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him and Higgins
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any idea what these are
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very purple very very bright purple oh
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and then there's some red
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bulb stuff over there
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and look at this perfect timing so I'm
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pulling back into the station without a
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way we just timed it just right
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different guy oh different person
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they must have different ones
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got some rain coming down the wind
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blowing the bamboo
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a hollow bamboo shuffling against each
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other making that
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bamboo sounds yeah you can really see
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the rain coming down pretty well from
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this angle when I'm zoomed in on the
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on the leaves there
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yeah kind of like there you go
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the precipitation
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coming down now it's getting on me
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sitting in the back here the crossing of
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the trolleys
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they're not waving
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we're gonna wave back
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fail
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here we thought maybe they thought I was
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waiting on someone else
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I don't know where we're going
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excited
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what could be around though he is going
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a lot faster yes wow I'm gonna fall off
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hold on
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driving down a bumpy road Fast Pace
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flipping and turn on a wet wet leather
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seats