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The week turned out so well with the visit from my brother, Phil (Nick to family) and his partner in life, my brother-n-law, Michael…However, towards the end of the week, Michael had to go home and couldn’t join us in the luau at Seaworld…On Friday, Nick called to see what our plans were for Saturday the 22nd and if we could still find out if there are any available seatings for the Polynesian Luau…We made calls and came up with seatings at the Seaworld’s Makahiki Luau…The most unexpected part of this luau business was that Nick wanted to treat us to the luau…It didn’t matter to Richard and I just as long as we could spend time with him..So off to Seaworld we went about 3pm…
There is nothing like arriving at Seaworld and heading to the Dolphin Nursery…It is always neat to see mamas and babies swimming around and playing…This day there were a couple of babies swimming around in the nursery pool…
After getting some photos of the mamas and babies, we walked in to a shop just to browse since we had some time before the 5:30pm check in for the luau…There were some awesome glass figurines that I would love to have some of them…So since we can’t buy any and put them anywhere in the rv, the best thing to do is to take photos…Shamu the whale was awesome…A sea ray was beautiful…A blue crab reminded me of the Chesapeake Bay crabs…
I really loved this squid or octopus…The color blue was spectacular…but the price was not spectacular…If only!!!!
After walking through the shop and seeing all kinds of tees, flipflops, bags, sunglasses, souveniors of all sorts, candy and kids stuff, we headed back to the Seafire Inn where it was a bit warmer inside…About 5:25pm, we went outside to wait the few minutes to head down the walkway to the Luau…
At the end of the pathway were 2 members of the luau who gave out the leis…Then you walk a little bit farther, and another member takes your photo…After the photo, you head indoors to get a free drink, a beer or a hawaiian drink of rum/punch for adults or lemonade or you can buy a drink once inside the hall…Once led in the doors to the luau room, a member takes you to your table and seats you…On the table are well designed plates of food with glasses and drinks…The first food served is the salad, a roll and grapes..Sticky rolls are in a basket just waiting for you to grab one and wish you had a wet one…lol…
While beginning your plate of salad and grapes, hawaiian singers come out on stage and start singing songs…They sing for a little bit and then the Kahuna and his wife comes out and talks about their culture…Dinner is served of pulled pork, fish in coco lopez, chicken and fried rice…Sodas and teas were free along with the dessert and coffee…Once eating, the dancing begins…During the entertainment there was even a fire dancer…The whole evening was really cool and fun…but the best part of the night was just being with my brother and hubby…
Thanks Nick for a grand evening…Someday we hope to return the favor…Just time together is enough for me… :-)
