Aloha

Yesterday we celebrated our first culture day in our Cooking around the World series. (Musa had chosen Hawaii) Musa chose his recipe's and spent the night before preparing his dishes. A homeschooling buddy of ours just finished Hulu dance lessons, so we invited her over to teach us some moves. It turned out to be a pot luck of sorts...the food was great, the music fun, and the company superb.

Musa's menu included BQ pork sandwiches topped with Hawaiian coleslaw, crab-potato salad and coconut/macadamia nut dessert bars. We prepared the pork the night before in the crock-pot and when we awoke and tried it, we realized we had suffered our first menu disaster. The only thing we can think of is that Musa salted the pork, and then I salted the pork, not realizing that it had been done. The result was a pot of VERY salty inedible pork. We thought fast and decided that hot dogs were pork and quickly changed the menu to Hawaiian Hot Dogs with coleslaw. Our friends brought mango salsa and sweet potato/coconut pudding...when served warm is the ultimate comfort food. The coconut/macadamia bars were sinful. Musa is a great cook.

We started our day with fun and play and then Sarah gave us all a Hulu lesson. She was a fabulous teacher, we all learned so much. Musa was a great sport and took the lessons very seriously. Doesn't he look marvelous in his grass skirt?

During our feast we watched the movie Stitch has a Glitch. (Lilo and Stitch 2). We were hoping for Blue Hawaii, but couldn't find a copy anywhere. Although there is a touch of Elvis in the Lilo movies, it just wasn't quite the same.

                                                

It was a suberb day.

Musa has also done quite a bit of reading about Hawaii. We were fascinated to know that although there are 18 commonly accepted islands, if you count all the islands there are 130. Amazing.

We had fun learning Pidgin.  (Pidgin here in Hawaii is a sort of Hawaiian Slang-lish and not the Pidgin language spoken in the deep south Pacific Islands. A culture lies behind Hawaiian Pidgin. It seems to rub off on those who stay for any length of time. There are many, especially in the country areas and outer islands that only talk "da kine" true Hawaiian Pidgin)

Musa has long been fascinated with flags from the states and around the world so he made a cool Hawaiian flag. The corner of the flag is a replica of the Union Jack flag of Britain, honoring their long relationship with Britain.

The only thing left is an actual trip to Hawaii..........