August 29 Summer Get-together in Hoomaluhia

There is soooo much to look forward to at our annual summer get-together!

First of all, visiting the Hoomaluhia Botanical Garden is always a visual and emotional treat. Its calm environs is sparked alive by the presence of our UPAA-H crowd – our laughing keikis and happily reminiscing alums! President Alma Phocas, who works as supervisor in this beautiful nature retreat, made possible our come-back to this site.

Once again, our keikis will be treated to a fishing derby at the nearby stream. Do you remember our clumsy attempts at hooking fish baits (read: pieces of pan de sal) for the keikis while they were eagerly anticipating their catch? Do you still have the pictures of the “biggest,” “most colorful,” “smallest” catch? These are where the fishing tales begin!

Meanwhile, the adults will be back in the pavilion. There will much laughter as we all try to catch up with goings on in our families. There will be games as groups outsmart, outplay, outguess each other trying to win prizes as well. There will also be BINGO! where winning will be fun but losing can be fun, too, if you are in the company of friends, munching goodies from what we always anticipate to be a fantastic potluck spread.

To better coordinate our activities, your friendly Board of Directors and Board of Advisers divvied up the alumni list into 14 groups. Each group was assigned a coordinator, either a current BOD member or a past president. Each group, herein identified with its coordinator, was assigned to contribute the following to the potluck:

Group 1- Debs: Heavy pupus

Group 2- Alma: Poultry Main dish

Group 3 - Rose: Seafood Main dish

Group 4- Bea: Dessert

Group 5- Lilia: Veggie Main dish

Group 6- Ime: Starch

Group 7- Carolyn: Veggie Main dish

Group 8-Jun R: Meat Main dish

Group 9- Don: Veggie salads

Group 10- Jon: Pupus

Group 11- Jane: Starch

Group 12- Dennis: Drinks

Group 13- Delmar: Dessert

Group 14- Homer: Drinks

Just looking at the list and dreaming of the potluck leaves me hungry! We have always been famous for our potlucks, ladies and gentlemen; we have only ourselves to top, so let’s show us what wonderful gastronomic delights we can dazzle ourselves with again this time!

So, once again:

WHAT: UPAA-H Annual Summer Get-together

WHEN: August 29, 2009, 10 AM to 3 PM

WHERE: Hoomaluhia Botanical Garden, Luluku Road,

Kaneohe, Hawaii 96744

Check out this Hoomaluhia website for directions and info:

: Http://www.honolulu.gov/parks/hbg/hmbg.htm

Hasta la vista!

By Debs Telan Robillard, Programs Committee Chair