Hawaiian Luau

This is absolutely the cruelest thing we have done as bloggers and maybe in our entire lives. With most of our friends and family experiencing the worst winter many can remember in the Midwest we choose this point in time to post an entry on our Hawaiian Luau experience at the RV Park we are staying at. To put this into perspective Iowa has set a snowfall record with at least 4 inches of snow on the ground for 55 days. Council Bluffs/Omaha has had 75 days of at least one inch of snow on the ground. Kansas City is way ahead of the normal snowfall rate and the temperatures have been below normal. At one point the normal is 24 days above 50 degrees and they have only three days 50 or higher. To make matters worse the Kansas City area was hit with an ice storm and snow while we were at our Luau : )

After all that discouraging weather news we would like to state how much we like the Destiny Phoenix RV Resort. We chose this because friends of ours, Bob and Wilma, come to this park every year escaping the Kansas City weather but this park stands on it own as a great place to visit. There are activities galore so no excuse to be bored. We have been to a potluck and a Hamburger Night put on by the park along with the Luau. For the first few days we just enjoyed the weather and went to Wal-Mart our home away from home.

There were 150 of us at the Luau and it was a great time. The start time was 4:00 p.m. which meant you needed to get there about 3:45 p.m. Since there were so many of us they kept us out of the area until it started so by the time the gates opened there was a very long line. Well, here I go again, as we sat there for about an hour chatting with the other people at our table it got very hot since we were sitting in the sun by the pool. Jo luckily remembered a little hand fan which she used to keep cool. We know we are getting a lot of sympathy from our friends and family up north right about now.

A little after 5:00 p.m. they brought the food out and man it was good including the meat from two pigs along with good salads and dessert. We went table by table so as to not swamp the buffet tables, luckily we were about in the middle but there was no worry, there was way more food than we could ever have eaten although Bob made a great effort going back for seconds. As we were finishing the feast the sun was setting and we got this excellent photo.

No Hawaiian Luau would be complete without an Elvis Show. The Elvis impersonator did a two act show, the first act was dedicated to the movie "Blue Hawaii", other Elvis movies and lesser known Elvis songs. Act 2 was dedicated to the 70's and the Aloha from Hawaii television special. It was a very enteraining show and we enjoyed ourselves. Our friend Wilma even got Lei'd by Elvis right in front of us! So about 8:40 p.m. the evening concluded which is the latest we have headed back to our site in a long, long time. But this time was a short walk from the club house.

Till next time,

Bob & Jo

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