Polynesian Culture Center

Today, we went to the PCC (Polynesian Culture Center) which was an awesome experience. We started off waking up around 8 o clock, ate breakfast at 9:15, and hoped on the bus to the PCC around 10.
The bus ride lasted around an hour and 30 min, during which, Cousin Leon gave us commentary on the sights around Hawaii. He told us also what the word Aloha meant besides the English meanings of "hello" and "goodbye", which was "live well" (Alo) and "breath of life" (ha). Once we finally got to the PCC, the sun was bright and the weather was awesome, I could tell it was going to be a good day.
We started off our day at the PCC eating lunch as we had to make sure we had enough room for the Luau dinner later on.
After lunch, we took a canoe ride over to the islands of Fiji, where we learned about how the chief's house and how it is always built with the front entrance facing the East. Next we learned how to play the bamboo sticks of Fiji, which are very fun musical instruments there.
After Fiji, we traveled over to Tahiti, where we learned fun native dances and some of us got fake native tattoos.
We then traveled to the Hawaiian part of the PCC, where we tasted some purple stuff which name escapes me at the moment and practiced Hula steps.
After Hawaii we went to Tonga and watched the guys play on the Tonga drums, then they invited three different audience members up to the stage, all three of which couldn't keep up the the natives, but were definitely funny in their own ways.
Then we went over to the river in the heart of PCC to watch each of the different island natives give a display on different boats which were simply awesome. Each one did their native dances and definitely showed why islanders should be the kings of stepping.
Finally after all of that, we went over to the Alii Luau and had a huge buffet dinner, then around 7:30 we went over to the Pacific theatre to watch a fantastic performance by all the islanders who took the phrase "playing with fire" a little to the extreme side.
All of this with the sun shining bright in the skies of Hawaii (except at night of course).

Signing Off,

-Jim