We love Samoa!
Cheers! Here is to new experiences!
Our hula lesson!
Enjoying every moment of it!
In Tonga showing off new skills!
A natural on stage.
We love Sunset beach!
Jumping pictures are priceless!
Haleiwa town is classic surfer perfect!
The Dole plantation!
Yum! The Dole whip is so delicious!
The guys with King Kamehameha.
All the girls with King Kamehameha.
At the palace! First group picture of the week!
The capital building!
Today was another beautiful sunny day in Hawaii! Exactly what we want! We started our day with a short city tour. We stopped at the capital building and got to see one of the only two palaces in the United States. We also passed by the school that President Obama studied at. Our next stop was the Dole pineapple plantation! We got to have some of the famous, delicious Dole whip. It is like a frozen yogurt. MmMmM! We all loved it! Some of us even tried the enormous pineapple whip splits! We also got some souvenirs while enjoying our whip.
Next we went to a small surfers town, Haleiwa. It was the cutest town, because it was so small! The town reminded some of us of Europe with all the small shops. There they have a extremely popular burger place where we got to try burgers with pineapple slices on it! YUM! They were kind of messy, but it was totally worth getting it all over our hands and faces! We did some more light shopping in the rest of our free time. We saw all kinds of surf shops and hawaiian places to shop. It is a very tourist friendly little town with many fun things to see.
After that we passed by many famous beaches. We got to stop at Sunset beach. This beach usually has many people surfing the huge waves, but today it was very calm. This was good because we got to put our feet in the water! We took another group pictures and the background of the beach was perfect. So many of us took jumping pictures! It was a fun short stop.
Our last stop was the Polynesian Cultural Center. It was amazing! We were taught many things about the Polynesian islands. It is a very interactive place that is actually pretty funny. We stopped to watch a few mini shows from the different areas. Some of our students actually went up on stage and danced in front of the audience. It was so funny to see! The highlight of some of our days was the hula lessons. Many other students loved the Samoa show! It was so cool to see him start fire. Then we headed off to a delicious buffet dinner. We had two students with birthdays and the people at the restaurant, and us all sang happy birthday to them!
The show at night, Ha Breath of Life was amazing! It was the best show most of us had ever seen. It was very professional and well put together. There were dances from all the Polynesian islands. There was a story of a man from birth through adulthood and his story was told through the different islands. There were a lot of dancing, shouting and fire shows. The backdrop of the open theater was gorgeous. It was so real with the palm trees, waterfall and fake volcanoes. The fire dancers were also everyone's favorite part of the show!
It was a loooong day. Most of us slept on the way home back to the hotel. We definitely loved it and had a good day. It was a wonderful day and hopefully we will get lots of rest to be ready for our next day here in Hawaii! Hawaii is amazing! WE LOVE IT HERE!!!
Aloha and goodnight!
Pavol- Slovakia
Laura- Estonia
Lukas- Germany
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