You can't go to Hawaii without going to a luau, so this night I went to the best one on the island - Paradise Cove Luau. When you get there the first thing they do is hand you a mai tai, which is made with rum, juices and other various ingredients. This isn't a picture of a mai tai. Just some piece of wood on the ground showing the name of where i was.
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After you get your mai tai you get in line to have your picture taken. If you are a woman it is taken with a Hawaiian guy wearing nothing but a loincloth. If you are a man it is taken with this woman wearing coconut shells as a bra. If you are a group you get both of them in your pic.
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After you get your picture taken you walk around this little Hawaiian village where you can throw spears, and do other ancient Hawaiian things. I didn't take pictures of that because I don't want pictures of strangers throwing spears but here is a picture of that tiki idol guy with some torches. You can see one of the straw houses of the Hawaiian village in the background.
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Paradise Cove (as it's name implies) is right on the beach so there is real pretty scenery there. Here is the view looking to the right from there.
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Here is the view looking to the left. You can see some people out on one of those Hawaiian canoes. They were giving rides where they would paddle you around the cove. You see a tall hotel in the background but we were not in Waikiki. That is the JW Marriott Ihilani Resort and Spa at Ko Olina, one of the most exclusive and expensive places you can stay at on Oahu. It is all by itself far from Waikiki. Rooms start at $354 a night. Lots of celebrities stay there.
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This guy was doing a little hula dance while the coconut bra lady I posed with earlier looked on.
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Here's the guy still dancing. Before he started dancing he did a demonstration of about 10 different ways to tie a sarong. That's the thing he's wearing. I missed that demonstration, which is probably a good thing since I don't wear a sarong so I have no need for that information.
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