Well, we're a little less than a month away from the 2013 Hanapi Reunion on Kauai. Right now, it looks like we have about 40 registered and paid and Eli Kikuchi is hoping to see the last minute signups.
Tomorrow, we'll be meeting at Eli's place in Lihue about 4:30pm for a Potluck to see how the committee is doing with their various assignments.
My assignment was to come up with a program showing the various events, locations and times. I'm also assisting Wini who is taking care of the registration. We already know who's coming from where and whether they paid or not.
Our first meeting was at BJ's Broiler at Nawiliwili harbor. Maggie lost her camera so the pictures from that meeting are gone. Hopefully, Wini Smith has some on her phone of that meeting. That was more of a get together to visit with one another.
Our second meeting was held at Eli's place as a Potluck. My wife and I met Eli's two kids, Keri Kobayashi and Ken Kikuchi for the first time. Eli Kikuchi, Keri and Ken represent Mary Ewaliko Ahana, Naomi Tabonair represented the Carrillos, Wini Smith represented the Abbeys, Clifford and Lani Wong represented the Wongs and Wayne and Dee Slater along with myself and my wife, Flynn and Maggie Wood represented Elizabeth Ewaliko Wood Slater.
At the second meeting, Eli handed out a spreadsheet of who was doing what as we discussed the details of the programs and events. For tomorrows meeting, we should start to finalize the details as the date of the reunion is getting closer.
While I was processing the ohana registration, I noticed a name Nalani Gouveia Gomes. I gave her a call to find out if she was Aunty Ruth Hughes Gouveia's daughter from Redondo Beach, CA. I used to visit them back in the early 1960's where Maggie and I met and got married in 1962 in L.A.
She told me she was hoping her older sister, Willene Wailani Bell, might come to the reunion and she wouldn't feel like a stranger at the reunion. I called Willene and spoke with her for the first time and she said she was at the 2007 reunion. So I checked the DVD for that reunion and there she was dancing the hula. Hopefully, we'll see them at this reunion.
I was debating what instrument to use to distribute the information of this reunion so it looks like this is the best way to inform the Ohana. As we get closer to the date of the reunion I will inform you of our final program so you will know what's going to take place, when it's scheduled to happen, and how to get there.
For the next blog, I will give you the highlights of the 3rd Hanapi Reunion Committee meeting and highlight the island of Kauai for the visiting Ohana.
A Hui Hou,
Maggie and Flynn Wood
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