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As in the days of old, a pig was cooked in an imu (underground oven). Just before dinner they had a ceremony to take it out.

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Some hula dancers were pre-dinner entertainment.

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Dinner was buffet-style, and tried a lot of delicious things. The stuff in the cup is Poi, which was OK (very little taste, really) but not as bad as I had been warned.

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David's plate included the freakishly transparent rice on the left. I'm not sure if this is a traditional Polynesian way of cooking rice or what, but it looked cool and tasted good.

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The dessert plate was also good although not quite as good as dinner. From the outside: little pie thing with macadamia nuts, fudge brownies, coconut pudding squares, and chocolate with a passion fruit filling. I discovered I really like passion fruit,

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Another beautiful Hawaiian sunset.

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Unfortunately, once the sun went down it was very hard to get decent pictures. Here's an idea of the costumes, though.

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More hula dancing - sometimes only girls danced, sometimes only guys danced, and sometimes they danced together.

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Grass(ish) skirts!

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More guys dancing. I wish I had paid more attention to the story they were presenting.

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At the end of the night, we arranged our leis (which were apparently made out of orchids) for a nice picture.