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Oahu, Hawaii part 2

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Happy to hear you all enjoyed the first part of our trip to Oahu. I have so much more to share.. plus we visited a second island. DAY 4 We swung by Leonard's Bakery again.. dang those malasadas were good. We had a big adventure planned for the day at Kualoa Ranch.  Sorry, that is not a good picture but you get the idea. Tahitian Screwpine Kualoa is a 4,000-acre private nature reserve and working cattle ranch established in 1850, as well as a popular visitor attraction and filming location (for over 200 movies and tv shows) on the windward coast of Oʻahu in Hawaii.                    We had booked a 2 hour UTV tour and it was so much fun!     We learnt about the land and the significance of the valley. In ancient Hawaiʻi, these mountains were considered highly sacred and were the residence of kings. Unlike mountains formed by tectonic plates, the Koʻolau Range is the eroded remnant of a massive shield volcano. A pr...
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Oahu, Hawaii - part 1

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Aloha everyone! For spring break we made the long long journey down to Hawaii and what a trip we had. We landed in Oahu in the afternoon.. we picked up our car and headed over to our hotel in Waikiki and started to unwind.  Oʻahu, known as "The Gathering Place," is the third-largest Hawaiian island and home to roughly 70% of the state's population. Just a week before flying, the hotel emailed us letting us know they were undergoing massive renovations.. yay? So while the hotel was a bit of a mess and honestly the rooms did need the upgrade (pictures do lie) the stay was still excellent. The staff was incredible. If we had a problem, request, concern.. anything at all it took minutes to be fixed. No repeated calls.. no waiting around.. so I will give the staff a big 5 stars! We were all very jet lagged so we had dinner at Earls Kitchen (one of our best meals) and called it a night. DAY 2 We got up early.. which was easy thanks to the jet lag and headed straight to Leonard...
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