PCC

Kali, Krew and I spent a fun day at the PCC. I went there this morning to get some tickets not even planning on hanging out today, but Kali insisted, and I am glad she did, it was really fun and made me realize we need to do this a lot more. Might as well use our season passes since we have them. We chose to do the island of Aotearoa (New Zealand) today. I figure each time we go we can learn a different island, so today was Aotearoa. Here is a little on the island and their culture that we learned today. I pulled this from the PCC website:

Kia Ora...and welcome to — the Polynesian Cultural Center's islands of Aotearoa, or the "Land of the Long White Cloud" as the New Zealand Maori call their homeland of the past 1,000 years. Aotearoa forms the southwestern apex of the Polynesian Triangle and is the only part of Polynesia to experience four seasons. Consequently, you'll notice the Maori — whose name means the "true people" — created significantly different housing and lifestyles than their Polynesian cousins in the tropical islands. Oh, and yes, the appropriate response to a Maori greeting, which means "good health," is also Kia Ora.

The activities they offer here are twirling poi balls which Kali had a fun time doing and learning a Maori stick game called tititorea, it is designed to help develop hand-eye coordination. You toss the sticks back and forth between two people. Kali did a good job! They also do tattoos here. There was a long line, so I told Kali next time we would let her get tatted up and show her daddy:)

We watched the IMAX movie Coral Reef Adventure and then had some ice cream where we ran into Sara Duffin. She works at the Ko'Olina Resort time share kiosk, so we talked to her for a while then we decided to take the canoe ride which Kali was sooooo excited about, she wanted to see the fishes and touch all the tunnels that we went through.

Kali was so helpful and pushed Krew all around which was nice because by the time we were ready to go home she crashed in the stroller and I had a peaceful walk home:)