Today our adventure led us to the Polynesian Cultural Center. We stopped at a really cool McDonalds for lunch-it had a waterfall on the inside. After lunch we went into the Center. There are 7 native cultures represented: Tonga, Fiji, Tahiti, Samoa, Aotearoa, Marquesas and Hawaii. You can visit each village and watch a show. They were great and so entertaining and really funny too.
We saw drum presntations, learned Tahitian dance moves, fished the ancient way, watched a mock pig hunt, got tatoos and coconut tree climbing plus many other things. It was a great time. We aslso tried delicious pineapple coconut juice-which the boys especially loved. And Jeff and I tried cooked tapioca root and poi. We watched the canoe pageant and rode a canoe.
The center was built by the mormons and many of the people working there are students at Brigham Young University right next door. A lot of the money the center makes is returned to the students in the form of financial aid. It is all very interesting!
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I didn't know BYU had an extension in Hawaii... that's interesting!
I learned a rather vicious martial art called the 'Lua.' It is Hawaiian in origin, and the hula dances have roots in this martial art. Maybe you can learn more about it!
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