Friday was going to be another highlight of the trip that we had booked with the nice soft-spoken lady of the American Express trip shop at the westin: A original Hawaiian Luau!
But first we had to wake up early and survive a 1.5h presentation about Westin Vacation ownership with a tour around their facilities. At least they give you free breakfast and $100 off your room bill… better than nothing - and of course the reason why we did it 
It turned out taking a little longer than anticipated - we were our by 1100h - and they were very persuasive, almost had us there to spent $50.000 on share of a vacation home from Starwood on Maui, but we were stronger…
After that interesting detour we slept a little more, Tania worked on her school stuff, we started packing our bags.. and slowly got ready for the Luau.
At about 1715h we went downstairs to the little outdoor stage, but of course it was going to start not until 1730h, so we waited around and looked at the small local artists that were there showing their stuff. And one of them was actually carving his wooden Totems out right there…
So we were almost the first there, and in the end the last in the line… because we didn’t fell like standing in the line the whole time.. 
and everybody who came after us just joined the line. Well, didn’t take too long, we signed in, got a Mai Tai, got our picture taken
- one with and one without a nicely Hawaiin-clad couple and we were off to the tables which were pretty full already. But we were kinda lucky because there were still two places right in front of the stage, unfortunately with our backs to the stage - oh well!
It was nice anyway… although we had to turn around for all the dances and music and stuff. They started with a shell call above the waterfall, then a guy climbed a coconut tree
- which seems to be stuff they do all the time around here in Maui, at least according to the host. 
And then some more music and dancing from local islands all around us, Hawaii, New Zealand, Fillipines etc.
The Food was 4 courses including desert, and had a little bit of everything local. They had a large rotating plate on each table, and there were mostly just enough of everything for everyone on our table, i.e. 8 steaks for 8 people on our table. In between there was more dancing and music and some more history to go along.
After the last desert course, the show ended with a magnificient chief (he was playing music before) doing a fire-knife show, and the other 5 guys joining in - really giving their best for the end.
Then we went up, Tania watched Bourne supremacy on-demand and I almost fell asleep aside here, because I had already watched it.
