Hawaii: luau

We drove about 30 minutes north to Mauna Kea for a luau on Tuesday. The resort was amazingly beautiful. One of those places that you dream of staying at, but just will always assume it's a "when I win the lottery" type of places.

Lucas took this video... yep... you should be jealous!

Owen found a cool fish to poke at.

A family photo after we'd been laid. (tee-hee... that never gets old) The resort took a great photo of the five of us... but for $40 we passed.

Beautiful sunset.
We got to watch them un-dig the pig from the "emu".

It started cooking underground at 0900.

Under dirt and under tarps...


Under tea and banana leaves...

Is the pig and turkeys. They were both quite tasty.
It was Lucas and my (and Owen's) first luau. (mom and dad have been to three other ones). I found it really quite amazing. Great dancing. A little cheesy at times, but overall, great food and great entertainment.
Obligatory hula dancers.

A super cool fire dancer.Owen sat through two hours of luau. He loved the food, and when the entertainment started, he just stared and ogled at all of it. I was so proud of him. I half expected to miss most of the luau by having to walk with him elsewhere.

Here's video of fire dancing.

The best part of the night was when Lucas got pulled up on stage to do Tahitian dancing. I did notice a quick middle finger head rub in my direction... but it was worth it! I'll spare Lucas the video I took. Just embarrass him with this photo.