Hawaii Girls Trip: Day 4 - Maui Cacao Tour, Dinner, & Sunset

After we got all ready, we drove to the city where we were going to do our chocolate tour.  It was about a 45-minute drive to the tour where they had the big fires the year before.  Then the chocolate factory ended up being across the street from the stake center that helped so many people after the fires.  I had seen it on a report they did in-between General Conference.  

We checked into our tour and then waited for it to start.  We then loaded up the van that took us out to the cacao farm.  I was able to sit in the front seat and talk with our tour guide.  

We then got to farm, and it was really neat to hear about how they figured out how to grow cacao trees in Maui.  They had lots of tall trees that they planted around the cacao trees.  They showed us how they trim the trees and what the pods look like when it's time to harvest the beans.  

We then got to go up into a tree house and do a chocolate tasting.  She first gave us a taste of the cacao bean from the pod.  The slime around the bean was actually very tasty, but the bean itself was gross and a spit it out.  Everyone else ate it and tolerated it better than me.

We then tried nine different types of chocolates.  It was mostly dark chocolate with different fruit infused, but a couple milk chocolates.  I didn't like the milk chocolate ones, but some of the dark chocolates where much better.  Which is so unlike me.  It was not my favorite chocolate, and I wouldn't buy it on its own, but it was fun to try new things.  And it was a beautiful view from the tree house.

When we were all done, we got back in the van, and she drove us back to the chocolate factory.  We were all given a small cooler bag to take with us.  

We then drove back to the city where our hotel was, and we found us a place to eat dinner.  It was a very chill restaurant and the food was good.

When we came out of the restaurant the sun was about to set.  It was so beautiful that we walked across the street to the beach, and all watched the sunset.  It was so pretty and lots of other people had also stopped to watch the sunset.  It's nice to take the time to enjoy the small stuff.

We then went back to the hotel and dropped off Sherri and my mom and then Julie and I walked around a shopping area that was close to our hotel.  We found a few fun things and then drove back to our hotel.  It was a very fun and busy day.