Kona, Hilo

We started the day with a visit to the Aloha Angel Cafe, which has delicious french toast with coconut and macadamia nuts. As mentioned earlier, Zoe's newest hobby is to go running through and out of the restaurant, so we usually get to know the surroundings of the restaurant pretty well. Aloha Angel has two very cool things about it: a bush with hundreds of beautiful Gold Dust Day Geckos, and a gigantic mango tree. Here's one of the little geckos:

From breakfast, we drove South on route 11 and stopped near Captain Cook at the Greenwell Farms, where Zoe made friends with a cat



The tour is well worth the time, and includes a detailed and excellent description of the history of the farm, the coffee making process, and a tour of the various fruit trees that they grow.



After a brief stop to buy plumeria leis for chloe and gail, we drove south along the belt highway.
We continued on to Hilo, where we checked out the Farmers' market, and bought Papaya, Apple Bananas, macadamia nuts, papaya jam and some salad greens.

We also stopped at the Two Ladies mochi shop:

which makes the best mochi that I have had anywhere.

mochi