Day 1

We got there a later than I had planned. So dinner was later than planned since I had to make it. After we set up, I dug a shallow imu. It was only about 10 inches deep, but I lined it with some bricks I found Sorry no pictures as I was working as fast as I could. Built a fire over the pit and the draft effect helped.

Because of the late start, I had to improvise. The plan was to make kalua chicken, but with time constraints, I mad imu roast chicken instead. I put some hot coals in the pit, put the wrapped chicken inside and instead of burying it to make the imu, I made a slightly raised platform fire over the imu pit. It was on there that I made the rice. We also had appetizers of sausage, peppers and onion kabobs as well as veggies.

The chicken came out great with a tasty crispy skin and juicy meat. After several hours, the chicken breasts were still squirting juices. The kids were hungry and the adults scarfed! I saved the carcasses for the next night's dinner of chicken jook.

After dinner, I got to settle down and take some pictures. The moon was big and bright. So much so that i didn't feel bad about forgetting to replace my broken lantern mantles.



The gratuitous camp fire shot.



My buddy with his LOTR style pipe. I was surprised by it because I never saw him smoke. And then again when he mentioned Aragon (sp?). Nerd!




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