So we're on the

and I begin thinking about how Hawaii always has short rain showers. However, we have yet to see lightning or hear thunder.

Since JD and I were the only two sitting in the back of the jeep, who better to ask than our tour guide?

Me: Is there ever thunder or lightning in Hawaii?

Guide: I've lived here my entire life and we've only had it in the past couple of years, not before then though.

It's the end of the world, dude!!

Great view of Chinaman's Hat (middle of photo) and Kamehameha's Turtle (right side of photo)

Our guide swerved around those curves like a wild man. I almost flew out of the window-less window when he hits bumps.

But it's okay, because he picked wild guava for us...

...and it was so delicious!!

Our tour guide parked the jeep here to search for more guava but couldn't find any.

We were walking down the same hill from the movie

Journey 2

. To our left, we could see

Gilligan's

Island

(seems the crew wasn't as stranded as they claimed) and the pier and house where Drew Barrymore's character lived in

50 First Dates

The tour wasn't very jungle-ish. At all. But the wild guava and colorful stories from the tour guide made the tour very worth it.

What is your favorite local fruit or veggie?

Happy Election Day!!

Welcome to

Kualoa Ranch

, home of MANY movie and TV sets.

The Kualoa mountain range stands tall behind the main ranch house. The ranch was a sugar cane plantation at one time... until they realized sugar cane did not grow well on the land. Now the Kualoa Ranch is home to lots of cattle and movie sets.

The steers under the tree were featured in the movie Run Down.

We signed up for the Movie Sites & Ranch Tour as well as the Jungle Expedition Tour.

With a half-full bus and open windows, we began driving down the road where Adam Sandler tried to get Drew Barrymore to stop for him in the movie 50 First Dates.

First site stop?

Yeah. This will most likely be our 2013 Christmas Card...

Do you remember this tree from Jurassic Park?

Jurassic Park was supposed to be filmed on Kauai but a hurricane hit, so they filmed it on Oahu instead.

This is the most famous dead tree you will ever see.

Then we drove by Godzilla's footprints...

...and the garage from the movie Mighty Joe Young...

...and then we stopped inside of the Pearl Harbor bunker to see the Kualoa Goes to War / Kualoa Hits Hollywood museums.

The Kualoa mountains are the background from most of the scenes in the film Journey 2. Remember the

Waimea Waterfall

? That was in the movie too. (We watched Journey 2 for the first time on the plane ride home. It was pretty cool to notice places throughout the movie that the tour guide didn't even mention.)