JUNE 23, 2011 - HALE KOA LUAU

Today we got to attend the Hale Koa luau.  I won tickets at the newcomers luncheon and we finally were able to use them.  It was a lot of fun, the entertainment was awesome and the food was fairly descent.  Rowan really enjoyed the fire part of the show and Isabel enjoyed all of the dances.  I really like the guy from Samoa he was so funny and entertaining.  The second counselor in our bishopric is from Samoa and he is hillarious too maybe that's just part of being Samoan.  The luau had a lot of activities for the kids and it was a lot of fun.

 

He is from the island of Samoa and he was very entertaining.

Here he showed us how they climb the counut trees.

They did a little fashion show.  They showed you the different ways to wear the dresses.

She is trying to teach everyone a hula dance

Getting ready to pull the pig out of the ground.

An authentic imu (Hawaiian underground oven) ceremony.  Our dinner consisted of native food such as lomi lomi salmon, kalua pig, teriyaki beef, shoyu chicken, Mahimahi, fresh fruit, pineapple and poi.  I didn't not like the poi but the pineapple was so sweet and good.

Here it is our dinner (pig)!! and it was so good.

Isabel waiting to eat.

Start of the entertainment.  They put on a great show.  We saw dances from every Polynesian island and lastly we got to see them a live fire knife dance and Rowan really enjoyed that.  It was hard to take pics because it was so dark.