A couple of years ago we held a luau in at our house and invited a bunch of Italian and American friends to join us. The party was a phenomenal hit, and we've been pestered occasionally to have an encore performance. However the amount of work involved with such an endeavour has always discouraged us. Well this summer, our good friends and blog all-stars, Ann and Roland, were celebrating their grandson Max's first birthday. The first brithday has always been a very special time for people in Hawaii because of the high infant mortality rates that existined there in atniquity. So if there was ever an event that was going to get us off the bench and into our hula skirts, this was going to be it. And it didnt' hurt that my mom, and ultimate luau kitchen mama, Nancy was in town at the same time.
Unfortunately for us the day was absolutely sweltering hot hitting at least 100 by the early afternoon. But that was the only downside to this fabulous event. Team Sturk was hard at work decorating with all kinds of decorations from the "Tiki Hut" collection of the Target catalog. Meanwhile the red-head, mom, and I were cooking up storm making some downhome Hawaiian food. And once the party started, everyone was so busy having a good time, that it made the hot summer afternoon a little more bearable.
The official part of the show started with My mom giving little Max his "Hawaiian" Name of Nakoa, which means Warrior. And don't underestimate that little pint-sized peanut; look what he did to that cake. We also had a little hula show with the lovely hula girls, Mom, Cyn, and even our Italian friend Sabrina got in on the action. She was fantastic! Especially considering that she had only been dancing hula for a few weeks before the luau.
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