Today we spent the day with my mom’s Halau. They rehearsed and we ran errands and stopped at a few places.
We drove around the area looking for flowers to pick for lei’s and stopped at a few places on the way. We went to Longs, Starbucks and the Waiahole Poi Factory, where I got haupia ice cream. After going to longs I am now on a mission to find a few pairs of Local’s flip flops in my size. I hear they run small.
The Waiahole Poi Factory was a fully functional factory until 1971 and was turned into an art gallery. In the 80’s the kitchen was refurbished and rented out to locals to use as a test kitchen. Later, in 2019 the factory went back to producing hand made poi and traditional Hawaiian food.
Most of our day was spent driving around, collecting flowers. While we were out and about we drove through the Valley of The Temples. The Valley of The Temples is a huge, gorgeous cemetery built on a hill with an amazing view. The centerpiece of this cemetery seems to be the Byodo-In Temple. The temple was built to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Japanese Immigrants coming to Hawaii.
We came back to the rehearsal site periodically to drop off supplies we picked up and for lunch and dinner.
There were about 5 other Halau’s that participated in today’s workshop. All from the same lineage. Three were from California and two were from Japan.
After dinner they ran through their performance for tomorrow at the Polynesian Cultural Center.
Today was a long day.
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