Sunday started with the same boxes with the same content to be carried – oh I forgot, and of course the mats, only this time they were much dirtier than the day before 😉

A few highlights obviously were left for the last day of the festival, including the food tasting, which I anticipated would draw the crowds and get long lines, but I made sure I got my samples, too! I especially liked the coconut pudding, and the poi with the pig wasn’t bad, either. I was surprised how good “pure” sugarcane actually tastes (just suck the sugar out until you are left with a little bit of wood that you spit out).

This was the day I was busy most of the morning doing my Kapa (see picture of the day) and taking pictures along with it. Then came the lines for the food tasting and our prepared lunch itself and then pretty much every thing got very busy and nervous for the “Grand Finale”, the Hukilau, the traditional community fishing demonstration. I am also trying to upload a small video excerpt of that if our bandwidth of the internet connection permits…

I had wished to get a Lomilomi treatment, but there were only two treatment tables and of course the regular guests had priority, and sign up for it they did! So that remains to be a payable activity I probably will pursue later once off from HAVO, but clearly there was a lot of learning and fun in addition to the free samples and free gifts or material we were given! I am looking forward to the festival here at Hawai’i Volcanoes and am wondering if the same people will be coming as “practitioners”.