A month in Hawaii 2025

John bought a cacao pod yesterday at farmers market, so we opened it. We were told that that soft part is edible. Cocoa beans apparently have long process to turn into chocolate. We went to chocolate shop later of the day and learned the process, and now I don’t understand how Hersey’s chocolate bar can be that cheap. Big corporation business I assume? Cut around the pod Snap and it opened Tried the white soft slime around the bean.  I love his hair. Each bean is coated by slimy white tissue. This white part tastes sweet&sour, some citrusy  After removing all the white part & skin off. Dark purple easy-crumbling bean inside Oh yeah, I bought this at farmers market. Super light weight and comfortable. It looks like dress but it’s a pants… or overall? And I can spread my legs super wide lol It was our laundry day. It usually takes 30mins washing 30 mins drying.  We were exploring ACE hardware store and… Natural food market next to the laundromat to kill our time....

We found a big beautiful pray mantis on our car in the morning We went to a church on Sunday.  Then we went to Maku’u farmers market .  These beads are plant seeds Glass jewelry  There were so many vendors! Meg & Bo were curious for so many new things Longans I bought a bundle of warabi, fern shoots.  So many cool fruits! Meg tried coconuts milk in coconuts cup John wants to plant coconuts in Chris’s yard Sprouting coconuts  We went to take trash out, and saw this. This place had lava almost destroyed but chain link fence blocked most of it It’s cool to see how fence was holding lava  And we went to south east area to see lava field Bo touching lava It had a red hiking road to the coast line Noni fruits were everywhere. I told John it’s edible but super bitter, and he took a bite of it. Why does he this way? lol We walked to the coast line on lava. No sand beach.  Piece of lava. It has layers  Different shape of lava. Shininess is for glass ma...