Oh, you really must do it. I've been to the "real deal" many times (i.e., when local families would throw a potluck party and roast a pig) and many commercial ones. Not to mention campy, fun ones like the brunch. Luckily I have a group of friends who enter into the spirit of whatever we are doing. I DID think of ordering poi but the cost was prohibitive for something no one would really eat, and chicken long rice ... well, rice noodles are so easy to screw up. Can't do the lau lau because there are no banana or ti plants around here! Luckily, since it was a brunch, the fried rice was enough!!! The one thing I didn't do was go to the party store in Dubuque for leis. A friend told me I should have said something, he would have gone for me. Maybe I'll make it an annual event. As I said, everyone got into the spirit of it. There wasn't a solid colored shirt in the room. You wouldn't think there were that many "aloha" print clothes in Illinois. I just wish one of my hula-dancing friends could have been there (and yes, I have a half-dozen tapes and CDs of both old-style "haole" Hawaiian music, the Cazimero Brothers, and Bob Nelson!).