Waipo Foundation Field Trip

Addi's preschool went to the North Shore last month for their excursion. We visited the Waipo Foundation where they grow kalo and make poi. It was muddy and messy so Addi mostly had a good time. Jess would have been the better one to go trudging through the lo'i for snails than Addi's fat pregnant momma but we had fun anyway. Peeling and cleaning the taro. Addi would not touch it but bossed me around on how to do it.

Rinsing the taro.

Off we go to look at the animals.

One very stinky pig.

Then we were off to the lo'i to get rid of all the snails and their eggs before they planted. Addi jumped right in sank up to her knees and almost lost a shoe. But she surprisingly loved it. She gathered snails in buckets and picked the bright pink snail eggs and squished them through her fingers.

Those would be the smashed snail eggs. Gross.

The buckets of snails for the ducks.

Kamekona and Addi were deep in conversation here about the pros and cons of smashing snail eggs with your hands.

Next month off to the lighthouse.......