Dinner, Coconut and a Broom

We left Hollywood Studios and drove to have dinner at 'Ohana located at Disney's Polynesian Resort.  We parked and then stood in line to check-in with our reservation.  I made the reservation 6 months before.  They checked us in and gave us a beeper.  The restaurant opened about the time we were given the beeper.  We waited about 15 minutes for a table.  We just spotted Cinderella Castle from the window when the beeper went off.

We walked by the grill on the way to the table.  The meal started with bread and drinks followed by a plate of dumplings.  We each ordered pomegranate lemonade.  Janelle did not like the bread but did like the dumplings.  Then a salad came that Janelle would not touch.  A plate of stir fried veggies and lo mein noodles came up next.  Janelle liked certain pieces from that plate.  The part that Janelle ate very well was what arrived to the table on skewers.  The waiters walked around with jumbo sized skewers delivering meat to each of us.  It started with chicken and then pork, steak and my favorite, the shrimp.  I remember Janelle eating some of all except the shrimp.

The meal included entertainment.  There was a man performing Hawaiian island music.  He invited the kids to a coconut race.  They were armed with brooms to sweep coconuts across the restaurant's floor.

I looked for Janelle in the crowd and found her holding the broom and the coconut.

She put the coconut back down but seemed to have trouble getting it to move forward.

She finally did get it around the room

and joined us at the table to finish her meal.

The famous part of the meal that I would like to try to make one day was the dessert.  It was a coconut bread pudding with banana caramel sauce and vanilla ice cream.  I translate this description to be bananas foster bread pudding.  I should have taken a picture of it but it was gone before thinking about it.

Our family will return to 'Ohana if we have the opportunity again.