August 11, 2007
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The next day we decided to spend at the Polynesian Cultural Center, a 42 acre place on the northeast shore that re-creates ancient Hawaiian and other island chain (Tonga, New Zealand, Samoa, etc) life, with dance, dress, song, etc...
our tour guide was great, we sort of glommed onto her, as we snuck in with part of a tour group she was hosting...she was a lot of fun...
the pageant of the long canoes, with dancers from each of the 7 islands doing a traditional dance...
all colorful costumes, etc. Actors are mostly college students from nearby Brigham Young University, and the proceeds are used to underwrite scholarships for the students.
After the pageant, we went to an area where they were doing some dances with coconut shells, and wanted audience participation, that was fun...
this guy was awesome, he did a mens cooking demonstration, and really knew how to play the crowd. We would find out later he was the star of their evening theatre performace, where he did a fire dance with twirling batons on fire on each end. Pretty awesome.
Some of them demonstrated how they scaled trees...
we all managed to get some temporary tattoo's...
we later went to a Luau, which was great. Here the hostess explains about the firepit they roast the hog in...
we all got nice flower leis too...
It was late by the time we got back to our hotel, but the kids all agreed it was worth it...
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