Our Visit to the Polynesian Cultural Center

March 24, 2003

 

One of the highlights of our trip to Oahu was our visit to the Polynesian Cultural Center in the city of Laie. We decided to pay extra and bought Super Ambassador tickets. This enabled us to have priority seating at all the shows and a personal guide the whole day! Check out this map of the center to get an idea of the set up. NOTE: The girl on the left was Brian's first date after turning 16 (this date lasted about 30 seconds...or the amount of time it took to take the picture).

 

Below are some pictures of our day at the PCC. You can put your mouse over the picture to read a caption and can click the picture to see a larger version. You may need to put the mouse over a picture more than once to read some of the longer captions.

 

 

Tonga dancers at the Canoe Pageant. These dancers hail from Samoa. The New Zealand Dancer's main goal was to make scary faces (to intimidate the enemy).

 

Our family paid to have a guided tour at the center and were therefore entitled to reserved front row seats at every event. In Samoa we saw how they made fire with two sticks by rubbing them together. In the land of Samoa they showed a boy climbing a coconut tree. Our guide told us that it was this young man's first time climbing and that the usual guy got up the tree much quicker :-) Brooke learns Tahitian dancing.

The Tongan guide picked audience members to play the drums. The guy on the right was from Japan and was pretty funny. He also picked a guy from Poland (coincidentally). "Poland," as he was affectionately called, lived up to all stereotypes of Polish people :-)

Our guide made sure Greg got picked to be part of the show in Marquesas. Greg began by doing a dance with the other "victims." The guys then went on a "Pig Hunt." See them looking for a pig. Here they are attacking the "pig." Here are some Marquesas dancers.

This is a fire dancer who performed during the night show called: Horizons. This is a picture of the Horizon show finale. Brian's second date...This is actually our guide for the day. Her name is Tine (pronounced: tee-nay). Tine is a student at BYU Hawaii. She grew up in Samoa.

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