Wednesday we went to a chocolate farm.  We weren't really feeling the three-hour-tour, so we didn't even try to reserve slots touring the plantation, and just went to the Lydgate Farms gift shop -- which defied all my expectations, really.  I imagined it would be a wee shop something like the lobby of a Nothing Bundt Cakes shop, with round, multi-tier tabled piled with various chocolate offerings that one may get to sniff before committing a significant number of dollars per ounce to take some home.  In reality, as we drove by the house-like building that was probably the gift shop, a young fellow in a mask standing behind a table on a porch in front of maybe a dozen empty plastic chairs waved at us.  So we walked back to him after parking, and it turned out he was the host of a chocolate tasting.  Instead of a wander and sniff, we got a narrative of how the beans are harvested and processed and cocoa percentages and oh, look they do vanilla too but it's not in season right now.  To my teetotaler astonishment, my favorite was the 75% Dark with Koloa Hawaiian Rum.  We bought a bar and I suggested to our roommate that he get an item for cedarfoxy for giftmas.

We adjourned to the condo for shenanigans and fanfic and possibly a movie, who knows.  It was very chill and relaxing.

Thursday we went Ziplining with the same company that did our tubing four days prior, and it was super great.  We criss-crossed the same valley like 7 times, and it was nice to get to look at the view more than once and from multiple angles.  Toward the end someone in our party twisted an ankle moving from one platform to the next.  There were only two more zips left, fortunately, and others in the party were helpful at providing shoulders for her to lean on as she limped from point A to point B.  Before the last zip I gave her some of my ibuprofen, and cedarfoxy offered acupuncture, which she accepted.  At the end of the last zip we had a lovely lunch, cedarfoxy did a little needling with needles from their emergency kit (we overprepare like that), and then we rode down the super bumpy road back to the warehouse.

After resting up in the afternoon, we tried to get in on a rum tasting at Koloa Rum Company, but we missed the cut-off by staying "just finish the chapter" before we left the condo.  So as planned, we pivoted and went to Kalapaki Joe's, whose happy hour had been pimped hard by all the tour guides.  Sadly, not super impressed our selves with the happy hour deals (25 cent wings aren't awesome if you only eat boneless wings and these aren't) but the cocktail was suuuuuuuuuuuuper sweet and yummy though. 

Then I spent the evening choosing the hike for the next day.