In the last few months, our ward has welcomed about 5 new families from Samoa and Hawaii. So the Bishop decided to have a Luau for the Christmas Party. And I have to say it was one of the best ones I have been to.
As you can see from the boys picture with Santa, the Santa was fabulous as well. All that hair is real by the way. I guess he is the son of an older couple in our ward who has been a little down lately and his parents thought this might be nice for him. He was great and looked real! Van has improved from last years crying to this years stunned silence.
The activities committee out did themselves with the decorations. Real palm frons (don't know if that is how you spell that), luckily we live in AZ, and they even dug a pit and roasted a whole pig. By the time I got around to the food it was gone, but I am sure it looked awesome. We had music and dancing provided by the families. The MC for the night even showed the kids how to crack a coconut and get the milk out and shred the coconut. He even managed to get the Bishopric up on stage and teach them the Hakka. The evening ended with us all going outside to see the MC do a fire dance. It was actually cold and windy so it took awhile to lite the stick. He tried to do it old school by rubbing sticks together but it wouldn't work. It was a lot of fun and by the time it ended and we got the kids bathed, it was 930pm.
As for the turn out for the party, I have been in our Ward for 6 years and I think I know everyone, but last night I didn't know half the people there. It was great that many people invited friends and non-members. My only complaint is that they ate most of the food before I could get any. I had to steal some of the pig off of my friend. I am going to try and upload a video of our Bishop's secretary doing the Hakka with some young men. It will make you think twice about saying no to him when you asks you to say the prayer in Sacrament Meeting. Ha Ha! And of course you can see Ian going through my purse looking for more candy canes. That kid is a candy freak. But I love him.
3 comments:
how fun!! Our ward party was last night. It was pretty good. Tyrel wasn't there so it was wrestling two kids while eating. See ya friday maybe!!
I love Ian! He stopped for a minute there to see what was going on, but then right back to searching for candy! And I love Van's face! Your kids are soooo photogenic! We had a luau back in Sept. and same problem with the food! The pig looked so good and I didn't get any because of the super great turn out!
That was so fun!
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