Luau in the Rain

My wife and two daughters and my older daughter's boyfriend came home from the concierge and told me she had something planned special. So, we got into the rental SUV and drove to what I thought was going to be a fancy restaurant here in Hawaii. But, we wound up at a Luau in the rain. I brought a large umbrella but they gave us light weight plastic parkas. About 75% of the people left because they were mainlanders and not used to living like this. But those of us who had been backpackers and used to roughing it in the wild (or those who really wanted to see the show) stayed to watch it with their pink or yellow or blue or clear lightweight inexpensive rain ponchos on in the rain outside. Luckily, the rain came in waves and since we had seats with dinners in the VIP section the performance area somewhat sheltered us from the rain (to a little degree). However, it was between 66 and 70 degrees all this time so we didn't get very cold because the poncho sort of kept our heat in so when we had the valets get our SUV we put the seat heaters on and the full SUV heater to warm up a little. But, what I found very unusual was that even when we got back to our condo we shut all the window and sliding glass doors. Usually it is so hot that you leave the sliding glass doors open and let the wind blow through your condo in order to stay cool enough most days.

at around 4 to 6 am it is supposed to get down to 63. When I used to live here whenever the temperature got this low the locals (who are used to a completely different climate than the mainland) would start to get sick at about 62 to 63 degree temperatures (unless they were living at 3000 feet or above up on the foothills of Haleakala which goes up to about 10,000 feet.

They had fire dancers tonight that were pretty good and so were the hula dancers. It was a really great show but like I said about 75% of the people left because they couldn't deal with it.

We felt very alive experiencing this and the performers seemed to give us an outstanding performance for us because we were devoted enough to go through this to see  them. So, they gave us their best.

I thought it was interesting that the Hotel that put this on lets the wind blow through and has many open spaces with tropical stuff growing where the rain falls down into. The weather is just so warm most all the time in Hawaii that leaving areas open isn't a problem because very very seldom do the temperatures go under about 70 degrees year around at least along the coast near the water.

So the temperature range is usually from 70 degrees to 95 degrees with 80% to 100% humidity. Hawaii I think has the highest human longevity of any U.S. state because of the weather here.

In other words if you are over 40 or 50 your muscles and bones don't hurt as much and as a result you don't have to take pain killers so much and the air is clean and clear from blowing across the ocean and you feel like you are in paradise (as long as you have enough money to be here). (The cost of living is about 3 times that of California because of food, rent and gas costs (for a similar lifestyle). For example,  for regular gas I paid about $4.63 a gallon for here and that was an flex fuel mix.