Day 5 in Hawaii

Thursday, Day 5: 


It was a fun filled day over on the North Short. We first made our way over to the Hawaii Temple and walked to grounds and visitors center. We also stopped but BYU-Hawaii since it located right next to the Polynesian Cultural Center. For lunch we ate at a local burger place called Seven Bros. It's a great place with great customer service. I really loved the environment. We stopped by Pounders beach to kill some time before we the PPC opened up.

 
The Polynesian Cultural Center opened up at noon and there was lots to do. We started with a river raft ride. From there we went to each village and tried to hit each little "show" they had. Time went by super fast that we didn't have enough time to visit every village they had (although we visited most). They have different activities at each village which we enjoyed. Our favorite village we visited I would have to say was Tonga, the show was hilarious (the Japanese audience member they had come up was too funny!)



 They have this river dance parade, where each village comes out on a boat with dancers and dance the typical dance from their culture. It was cool, it started to pour on us during the parade but the dancers kept going. There was one boat where the person who was steering lost his balance, due to the vigorous dance, and fell into the river.







 We went to the Luau dinner that they have at the PPC. We received lei as we came in. It is a buffet with food typical for a luau (ever a whole roasted pig). The food as very good and they perform a show during dinner. They asked if anyone there was here to celebrate their anniversary for the month of April to come up. I made Jake come up :) we, along with the others had to dance on stage to a nice slow song in  front of everyone.
 After dinner we killed some time at the gift shops before the night show began and ended up spending way to much ;) The "Hā: Breath of Life" evening show was really good. It was so late by the time we were done and still had a good drive back ahead of us. We really enjoyed our day, it was one of our favorites.