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Buy Back The Beach 2012 Benefit Luau – Five Things +

By on January 24, 2012 in Arts and Culture, Beach, Blogging, Community, Events, Family Fun, Photos, Uncategorized, Where Local Eat

Imagine Maui with very limited access to the beautiful beaches around it. Imagine it very crowded that you can’t see the ocean while driving down the road. Imagine… Can you? I can’t. Or at least I wouldn’t even want to. Part of  Maui’s beauty is it’s open space, it’s beautiful beaches and access to it. And I would want my kids, and my grandkids, to experience the same.  This is why I am participating in this Buy Back The Beach Benefit Luau. To help me organize my thoughts, I decided to break them into “Five”

Hula dancer at @oldlahinaluau #BBTB

Five Facts About Buy Back The Beach Benefit Luau 2012:

  1. Buy Back The Beach Benefit Luau is an annual fundraising event by Hawaiian Islands Land Trusts and it is now on it’s 11th year.
  2.  This year’s BBTB event will be held on the beautiful grounds of  the Old Lahaina Luau on January 28, 2012 at 5:00PM.
  3. Aside from the award winning Hula by the Old Lahaina Luau,  entertainment also includes a private concert by HAPA.
  4. Tickets are available online at Eventbrite, or you may call (808) 244-5263.
  5. Cost of Tickets are $150 per person and $1,200 for a table of eight.
Five Reasons To Attend the Buy Back The Beach Benefit Luau:
    1. To support Hawaiian Islands Land Trust ‘s (HILT) mission of protecting and preserving the land.
    2. To enjoy a great entertainment by the award winning Old Lahaina Luau and private concert by  HAPA
    3. To indulge on the onolicious  food that will  from the Hoaloha family of restaurants:  Aloha Mixed Plate, Old Lahaina Luau, Star Noodles and Leoda’s Kitchen and Pie Shop.
    4. To find some great deals on their Adventures For The Aina auction, maybe purchase one or two or more.
    5. To have fun with family and friends.

Five Ways to Support The Mission of Hawaiian Islands Land Trust

  1. Attend the buy Back The Beach Benefit Luau.  Tickets Available here (oh I already mentioned this? :) )
  2. Not available to come?  Live on a far away place? Then how about making “cash” a  donation via Paypal and help us raise $5,000 to fulfill the challenge and have a donor match it with another $5,000.  ( I was informed we need help in this are so I made it multi-colored :)
  3. Bid on an auction item, or share these auction happening with your family and friends and encourage them to bid also.
  4. Show appreaciation to the major donors and sponsors of this event: Old Lahaina Luau, Mana Foods, Skyline Adventures, Sempra and Boeing.
  5. Participate in the current Buy Back The Beach Social Media Campaign (see below) 

 


Five Ways to Participate in HILT’s and BBTB’s Social Media Campaign. 
  1. Like HILT’s Facebook Page   Join the conversation
  2. Follow them/us on Twitter  Join the conversation
  3. Discover what our bloggers are sharing about HILT and BBTB and please share them with your circle of friends too: A Maui Blog, The OhanaMama, Non-Stop Honolulu and Barefoot Studios.
  4. During the BBBTB Luau, follow the social media team @spectekula @roxannedarling @peterliu47 @melissa808, @theohanamama and @amauiblog all the other social media enthusiasts (like @DaniaKatz)who will be livetweeting from the luau. The hashtag we are going to use is #BBTB2012. Would be great if you would re-tweet (RT) our tweets as well.  It will be a huge help to us. Let’s all do this together!
  5. Read Roxanne’s post for more….

That’s all for now friends.  And I hope to see some of you there, or interact with you via online on  Saturday.   Aloha! (P.S. The photo above is the Social Media team for Buy Back The Beach 2011. :)

PHOTO CREDITS: photos taken by Peter Liu Photography. Posted on Kaiscapes’ Flickr Acct.  and the last photo is taken by Paula MacCutcheon.

THIS POST SPONSORED BY: Aloha Luxury Properties – Maui Luxury Vacation Rentals.

 

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Leoda’s Kitchen and Pie Shop

By on November 25, 2011 in Family Fun, Photos, Where Local Eat

(I meant to write a post about our tweet-up at Leoda’s two weeks ago,  but I didn’t get a chance to. Then a friend of mine, June, e-mailed me the other day and shared with me about her experience at Leodas. Perfect! Not only do we have an excellent blogger, June Harper is a very talented photographer as well! I so enoyed reading her post and I know you will to!)

Growing up on Maui there are some places you pass time and time again and never stop. I suppose this is true for anywhere, but for me it was stopping at Olowalu. It’s a small…I mean…tiny little village between Lahaina and Maalaea. Until last night, I had never stopped in Olowalu but now I can’t wait to go back.

The reason: Leoda’s Kitchen and Pie Shop. I spent a wonderful ladies’ night out this Monday dining at the brand new restaurant (it opened on November 9) where Chez Paul once stood. From the moment I approached Leoda’s I got a warm, homey feeling. The exterior has seating on a narrow porch on either side of the glass panel double doors. The interior lighting design perfectly shows off the beautiful details of the eatery. Cake stands, wood furniture, candy jars, spice jars, old family photos, a multi-colored distressed wooden plank wall, chalk board menu boards, subway tiled walls, open stainless steel kitchen….oh boy.

The food: Excuse me while I wipe the drool off my face. If I could have dinner and dessert all over again I would so do that right exactly now. I had a local beef hamburger on a toasted potato bun with avocado, tomato, Kula onions and butter lettuce with a basket of fries. Yum. The menu also includes pot pies, sandwiches (“pork, pork…mmm, pork” is one cleverly named item), and house made pies, of course!

The service: You order at the counter and they bring your food to you. The menu is on chalk boards hung behind the counter, but there are also simple paper menus you can read in case you don’t want to stand there staring all at the options (or your eye sight isn’t what it used to be). This casual dining was ideal for our group. After chatting at our table while deciding on our selection, each of us ordered and paid for ourselves at the counter. Our food came out at different times but pretty much one right after the other. Drinking glasses, pitchers of ice cold water, utensils, extra plates, condiments and straws were available on a buffet hutch with a built in water dispenser. A lovely detail that makes Leoda’s a super welcoming and comfortable place.

The team at Hoaloha Na Eha (Old Lahaina Luau, Aloha Mixed Plate) dreamed up this charming restaurant that really feels like visiting a grandma’s place. That is a super cool and stylish grandma with a knack for whipping up your favorite foods at the drop of a hat. I talked to Nicky Boskoff, the Front of the House Operations Manager while she assembled mini-pie boxes. I mentioned how perfect this place is for visitors coming from the airport on their way to their accommodations and she agreed. Visitors have already been repeat customers in the short time they have opened. She said they also had beach goers in mind when designing the restaurant’s floors and bathrooms. If you are hungry after a morning surf you are welcome to come in and there is no need to leave your slippahs at the door. Leoda’s Kitchen and Pie Shop is open every day from 10 am until 8 pm.

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ABOUT THE BLOGGER

June Harper is a Maui girl who grew up in Kihei, moved off island to see the world and came back after figuring out that Maui was pretty much the best place to be on Earth. She has a degree from UH-Manoa in Journalism. She is a professional photographer specializing in newborn portraits in black and white. You can see her images online at www.pixiebugstudio.com

 

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