Pineapples and Pizza in the Sky

Nago Pineapple Park

A family adventure.  We took the ExpressWay (toll road) to the much awaited Pineapple Park.  Aiden slept in the car.  After turning around only once we found ourselves facing some giant pineapple people.  The japanese love cartoon characters!!

We paid for our admission and entered the Park.  First, we boarded a pineapple golf cart.  It was fully electric and drove itself through the park.  There was no track... we guessing it was like a remote controlled car.

The park was beautiful! 

We listened to a recording about the park (in English) during our ride.  The pineapple car stopped as we exited we got to eat some fresh pineapple!  Yum!!! It was delicious (my favorite fruit).  Then the path lead us to sort of a sea shell museum.  There were lots of beautiful shells in here.  Sadly though, no translations and you weren't allowed to take pictures in here.

Once out of there, the path lead to a restaurant or down a "cobble" path.   Some displays with the history of pineapple farming (I'm guessing).  The only disappointment: No Translations!

This then led us to the tasting room!  Pineapple Wine... Sadly due to some unfortunate circumstances Active duty is not allowed to drink off base.  More wine for me!  Aiden and Daniel did however enjoy the pure pineapple juice, cakes, cookies, basically anything you could imagine pineapple flavored.  Huge tourist trap!  A fresh market and all things Okinawan.  Let's just say we need to go back!  Left here with pineapple juice and pineapple wine!  Oh, and sea grapes... Daniel's choice.

Pizza in the Sky

This ended up being a late lunch/ early dinner.  From the pineapple park we went through all of these winding roads up a mountain.  Let me just say, this place was not marked well.  We almost past it because it looked like someone's home.  We got a family sized salad and pizza.  Salad was great!  Pizza... how do I describe it.... different.  Crust great... toppings... we were told pepperoni, bacon, peppers, onions, corn, and cheese.  We exnayed the onions and peppers.  Let's just say corn on pizza... kinda strange, but not bad.  Pepperoni... not pepperoni, but hot dogs... not so good.  The view is beautiful and that and the salad made the meal worth it.