O`ahu, though third in size of the Hawaiian Islands, is the heart of Hawai`i. The City and County of Honolulu is the largest east-to-west in the US because it includes all of O`ahu and all of the northwestern Hawaiian Islands, except Midway. We watched some of the morning traffic reports on TV and Honolulu’s traffic rivals LA’s. There is supposed to be good birding on O`ahu, but there also are more introduced species here than on any of the other islands.
Today we relaxed in anticipation of going to a luau in the evening. We used the base library to send the blogs you got yesterday. Our quarters are hard-wired for the internet, but we don’t have the cable necessary to access. Again our ipad worked fine with our Verizon service to download email and surf the web.
Since neither of us had ever been to a luau, we didn’t know what to expect. We’d read about several offered by the big Waikiki hotels, but we didn’t want to contend with that traffic after dark! As it turned out, the one we selected was about 30 minutes from our quarters, but it was not a stressful drive.
The Paradise Cove luau is at a private cove on the western side of O`ahu. It includes lots of Hawaiian cultural activities before the meal. Ann tried her hand at spear throwing. We didn’t see anyone hit the bulls eye with the too-light, dull “broom handles”. It was fun anyway!! David took the canoe ride into the sunset. Ann had a palm wreath made and we enjoyed lots of mirthful skits demonstrating native customs. They gathered a group of men who were willing to go shirtless and wear grass skirts to do some Hawaiian male songs. There was a demonstration of net fishing and the beautiful Hawaiian wahines welcoming the men home from the water, complete with lit torches. Before dinner there were also many hula songs with the sensuous, fluid hips and hands of Hawaiian women and muscular, sensuous hips of the men, too. Ann tried her hand at learning to hula, but the hands and hips just wouldn’t work together!! After dinner of fish, pork, chicken and many different salads and desserts, there was another hour of music. It was an outstanding value and one we will treasure for a long time.
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| What will the children and grandchildren think about Grampa Dave and Grannie Annie getting tatoos?!!!! |
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| Fierce warrior wahine practices spear throwing |
Well, it finally happened--Dave is driven to paddling alone into the sunset!!!!
And what a sunset!!
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| "Taken" women wear the flowers on the left. |
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| Uncovering the pig which has roasted for more than 36 hours. |
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| Sensuous male and female hula dancers |
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| After dinner entertainment |
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