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Every year, a major dance event is held on the “Big Island” of Hawaii in the town of Hilo - the Merrie Monarch Festival hula competition, featuring both modern (‘Auana) and ancient (Kahiko) forms of hula.

King David Kalakaua was the “merrie monarch” who revitalized Hawaiian ethnic language, arts and dance during his reign 1874-1891.

This year’s Merrie Monarch Festival is scheduled for March 30 - April 5, 2008. The video below features Halau I Ka Wekiu in the Kahiko kane (men’s) division.

For anyone reading this post via RSS or other feed mechanism, click here to go to the hula video on YouTube.

For more like this, plus Tahitian dance, see teriimataha on YouTube.

Related post: Get Some Family Aloha When You Travel to Hawaii

(This series is cross-posted with the Perceptive Travel blog.)

Welcome to the third and final video in this series about inexpensive and unique travel souvenirs. I want ‘em cheap, I want ‘em to bring a smile to my face and remind me of the place where I bought them and if at all possible, I’d like ‘em to be useful.

Part One started us out with a variety of small items that you can find almost anywhere, Part Two covered “the obvious” T-shirts and coffee mugs, and here in Part Three, I will take a walk through my home to show you a few of my souvenir favorites and tell you the story of the “Diarrhea T-shirt.”

Thanks for your patience as I learn the ins and outs of my Flip video camera….including the discovery that I need to do better with the closeup feature.

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I've posted previously about my stop in Independence, Kansas in summer 2007 to visit the Laura Ingalls Wilder "Little House on the Prairie," which was reconstructed on its original site using traditional materials and layout. As I played with my ... [Continue reading this entry]

Earlier this year we took a family press trip to Virginia's "Historic Triangle" (Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown) and our tourguides gave us a disposable digital video camera to play with. The CVS ... [Continue reading this entry]

You know what happens when you go to the Best Buy electronics store on a Friday and buy a little video camera for your laptop? You cannot wait to post that first “vlog” post; a video blog. A short personal welcome to Family Travel, ... [Continue reading this entry]