Paradise Cove, Fri Night

This afternoon we visited a place called Paradise Cove. The idea is that you get to experience a genuine Luau (pronounce like: loo -ow, Alex :p) while also learning more about the culture. I find its more like a cross between a theme park and a themed bar, but its fun all the same!

The dancers dress up in traditional hula and warrior costumes and perform dances and sing and generally entertain. We also got to play some old school 'games' such as spear throwing and hawaiian bowling (basically rolling a rock at a stick) and also do pretty things like make flower bracelets and leis and get temporary tattoos. The place is set on this gorgeous little beach cove, it is absolutely picturesque, with plam trees and huts and blue water, exactly like if someone said 'picture Hawaii'! (Accompanied of course with hot buff boys playing the ukulele and some stunning girl singing).

The dinner is a propper Luau where they slow cook this entire pig in the ground for like 8 hours. They dig it up and haul it round on a tray so you can have a nice close look at din dins, not to mention smell the damn thing a mile off. Then the pig gets cut up and served with your buffet, so you can all imagine i loaded my plate with his steaming rump. (Steph actually did try it, she is so brave!) and then the performances start.

Its mostly just singing and dancing, lots of hip shaking and the guys doing masculin things like hitting poles and stamping. The finale was the best, though. The girls wore awsome skirts and hula-ed like nothing before, and then one of the men did a fire dance with fire-poles. AMAZING. Not to mention all the guys are so tribal and hot! So despite the stage-ness of it all, it was a fun place to hang out for the first proper Hawaiian weather we have had this trip.

E & S