Speed on over to the Carnival of Aloha!

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Evelyn is hosting the Carnival of Aloha again over at Homespun Honolulu. While you can’t get funnel cakes and elephant ears at this carnival, you can see some great stories by other awesome Hawaii bloggers! We contribute and love to see our community of those spreading the aloha come together for this unique experience.

To go to this month’s carnival, click here!

Behind the scenes at Food Network Challenge: Part 1

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I noticed the Food Network will be replaying the Food Network Challenge: Luau Beach BBQ a few times in June. We actually attended this event to cheer on our new friend, Sam Choy. I thought my readers might be interested to see what goes on behind the scenes at one of these. When my husband contacted Sam Choy to cook for our 10 year anniversary in 2006, we had to do a little last minute finagling because he was going to be in the Food Network Luau BBQ Challenge. We originally were going to do it our last night on the Big Island on May 18th but had to switch it to the 16th for him to do the challenge. When we talked with him after dinner, he said he didn’t have everything together but wasn’t too worried because they were dishes he was very familiar with. I feel like we got a bit of a preview when he made us some kalua pork among other things. Oh they were WONDERFUL! He said we were welcome to come down to the challenge which was going to be at the Sheraton Keauhou…a few miles from our rental home. So a few hours into it we showed up. He looked up and saw us and smiled and waved at us. The pic above is when there’s about 90 minutes left in the challenge. The camera crews were around Sam alot so we took whatever pictures we could of him when they cleared.

Attn: Oahu residents with plumerias to spare

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From the KITV website:

The Ladies of Kaahumanu are asking for donations of plumeria flowers for the annual lei draping of the King Kamehameha statue in front of the Hawaii Supreme Court building.

There has been a shortage this year of flowers so the society is appealing to the public for help. They are accepting any color of plumeria flowers. The annual lei draping is a tradition that was started more than 50 years ago.

Volunteers will be at the Kamehameha statue Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. to accept flower donations. The lei draping ceremony is later that evening.

It’s Carnival of Aloha time

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It’s time to see what the Hawaii blogosphere has to offer! It’s the Carnival of Aloha at Evelyn’s place. It’s a great way to see other Hawaii oriented bloggers in action!

Click here to make your way to the carnival.

Happy Mothers Day!

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Wishing all of you mothers (of human and furbabies) a Happy Mothers Day! If you like the image above, you can send a Hawaiian Mothers Day ecard from Pacific Expressions.

May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii

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Happy Lei Day! If you’d like to know the origins of Lei Day, click the link below for a nice video on the origins:

Lei Day Video

(I was going to post the video but it starts automatically so you can watch it at your leisure) If you’re in Hawaii and you’d like to see if there’s a Lei Day celebration near you, click here and the first 7 events are Lei Day related.

(Want to send a Lei Day card to someone special? The image above comes from AlohaWorld.com and their Shaka Ecard section!)

The incredible shrinking chef

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I met Sam Choy in 2006 when my husband surprised me with him cooking us dinner at our rental home for our 10 year anniversary. (That’s what he’s doing in this pic, making a wonderful dinner for us!) We loved Sam for the same reason everyone in Hawaii seems to…he’s real. He’s as sweet and honest as he is on TV. We became fast friends bonding over the extra pounds we carried in the middle. Seeing him was a shock because it was obvious he’d lost a good amount of weight. I believe at the time we met him he’d lost about 80 lbs. He gave us the backstory on how he came to lose that much weight. When we got together with him last year to hang out, he’d lost even more…125 lbs total. I told him he had chicken legs now! hee hee

I came across a great article in Hana Hou Magazine that features him and his trainer, whom he just raves about. If you’re curious about how Sam has dropped the pounds, click here to read the article.

Maui’s homeless pups need you

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Who can resist those faces? Hopefully not you! If you live on Maui or are visiting soon, these lil pups make the perfect companion or souvenir that long returns on it’s investment! There are more dogs and puppies just like this who need your love and a furever home. Owning an animal is a big responsibility so please take it seriously. All it takes are meeting their basic needs and add love and you have a sweet little nugget that’ll give you unconditional love it’s whole life. To find out more about the animals here or at the shelter, go to the Maui Humane Society website.

Enter United’s Hawaii Sweepstakes

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Up for a trip to the islands? Who isn’t!? (Okay unless you live there maybe) ;) If you’d like a chance to enter United’s Hawaii Sweepstakes and get a trip valued up to $28,000 just click below!