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The base of an old telescope at the Dole Plantation in Wahiawa, Hawaii offers words to live by...

A small green lizard (probably a Green Anole?) peers out from between the leaves of a large plant in the garden of the Dole Plantation in Wahiawa, Hawaii.

These little guys were everywhere in the garden once you started looking for them. The garden itself was lovely, and the counter service food inside was surprisingly yummy and reasonably priced. The Dole Whips (soft-serve ice cream flavored with fresh pineapple juice) were delicious!

The train ride through the plantation was OK but not particularly amazing, and we skipped the hedge maze.

Even the flavored water at Disney's Aulani resort in Ko Olina, Hawaii is subtley infused with Disney magic. And citrus.

A floral patterned ceiling light in a corridor at Disney's Aulani resort in Ko Olina, Hawaii.

Another reminder that it always pays to look up!

The vignette here is completely natural -- it's just how the light fell off on the ceiling.

Duffy ("The Disney Bear") tries to get a bit more sleep one morning at Disney's Aulani resort in Ko Olina, Hawaii.

Given the 5 hour time difference from Massachusetts, we actually had a hard time "sleeping in." We woke up around 6:00 most mornings and were dead tired by 8 or 9 each night...