just went to a family reunion this past weekend, the first one i've ever been to, it was family from my mom's side, from maui. i wasn't really expecting anything because i don't really know my relatives very well, i'm one of the youngest so i'm kind of out of the loop knowing who's who. but anyway, mostly it was for my mom's generation, for them to get together again because they spent a lot of time together when they were young, so it really wasn't for the young people. but... we got to stay at the kea lani hotel in wailea which was way sweet.
i mean, this was the view from our balcony, cool huh? plus they were having the maui international film festival that weekend so there were a lot of hoity-toity people and celebrity hunters around for that...
the first night they were having this after dinner event out in the courtyard, i was looking for celebrities, but couldn't tell. so i was amped about the hotel, but unfortunately i had to share a room with my parents and my oldest sister, and after living on my own since october, having to share again was pretty crappy. luckily it was sweet room too so there was a bedroom section and a living room section (i slept on the sofa bed so i kinda had the living room part to myself) and this was the bathroom:
how awesome is that? i love the walk-in shower type of thing going with the stone tiling and everything. that was cool, plus there were huge mirrors everywhere which i like because no one ever gets to see the back of their head and you could see the back of your head from pretty much anywhere in this bathroom which was cool.
the rest of the reunion was pretty painful, pretty lame as you'd probably suspect, the first night was an ice cream sundae buffet (which, on maui, means vanilla ice cream with your choice of m&m's, nuts, brownie, hot fudge, pineapple or strawberry sauce and whipped cream for $35 per person), but i just flew in and had to go straight there so i was starving for real dinner food. we played lame name bingo and torturous get-to-know-you games, ugh.
the second day was free so mostly that meant watching the little nephews and such in the hotel pool (which was pretty decent) and going to the beach (polo beach is right off the property so that was pretty cool). there was some south shorebreak going on with some bodysurfers and bodyboarders out there, but, as with all maui beaches, it was mad windy and the silty sand made the water kinda gross and murky, but good enough to sit and look at to chill out for awhile. that night we had formal dinner, pretty tame, except for more lame games (luckily the "volunteers" for those games were the older generation so i was off the hook). on sunday we had a "picnic" at kalama park in kihei, i think they were going for the "back in the day" kind of feel, so it probably worked for them, i was bored out of my mind but whatever, i guess it was kinda neat. plus, it gave me time to take some of these cool pictures. something i learned though... my family (my immediate family, in comparison to most of my more distant relatives) is not a easy-going group of people. uptight. control-oriented. nit-picky and excessively talky about minute, unimportant matters. they don't get the gist of things, can't generalize. "we" were in charge of planning the picnic on the last day, and they were stressing about it the whole time. they'd talk and discuss and ask for opinions, then decide, then 10 minutes later bring up the same arguments and rehash the entire discussion and then make the same decision again. then my mom will write the decision down and forget it later. sigh. i guess i always knew they did that, but it just became so much more apparent after being stuck with them for a whole weekend. all i'm saying is i'm loving having my own place right now, haha.
just went to a family reunion this past weekend, the first one i've ever been to, it was family from my mom's side, from maui. i wasn't really expecting anything because i don't really know my relatives very well, i'm one of the youngest so i'm kind of out of the loop knowing who's who. but anyway, mostly it was for my mom's generation, for them to get together again because they spent a lot of time together when they were young, so it really wasn't for the young people. but... we got to stay at the kea lani hotel in wailea which was way sweet. 
i mean, this was the view from our balcony, cool huh? plus they were having the maui international film festival that weekend so there were a lot of hoity-toity people and celebrity hunters around for that...
the first night they were having this after dinner event out in the courtyard, i was looking for celebrities, but couldn't tell. so i was amped about the hotel, but unfortunately i had to share a room with my parents and my oldest sister, and after living on my own since october, having to share again was pretty crappy. luckily it was sweet room too so there was a bedroom section and a living room section (i slept on the sofa bed so i kinda had the living room part to myself) and this was the bathroom:
how awesome is that? i love the walk-in shower type of thing going with the stone tiling and everything. that was cool, plus there were huge mirrors everywhere which i like because no one ever gets to see the back of their head and you could see the back of your head from pretty much anywhere in this bathroom which was cool.
the rest of the reunion was pretty painful, pretty lame as you'd probably suspect, the first night was an ice cream sundae buffet (which, on maui, means vanilla ice cream with your choice of m&m's, nuts, brownie, hot fudge, pineapple or strawberry sauce and whipped cream for $35 per person), but i just flew in and had to go straight there so i was starving for real dinner food. we played lame name bingo and torturous get-to-know-you games, ugh. 
the second day was free so mostly that meant watching the little nephews and such in the hotel pool (which was pretty decent) and going to the beach (polo beach is right off the property so that was pretty cool). there was some south shorebreak going on with some bodysurfers and bodyboarders out there, but, as with all maui beaches, it was mad windy and the silty sand made the water kinda gross and murky, but good enough to sit and look at to chill out for awhile. that night we had formal dinner, pretty tame, except for more lame games (luckily the "volunteers" for those games were the older generation so i was off the hook). on sunday we had a "picnic" at kalama park in kihei, i think they were going for the "back in the day" kind of feel, so it probably worked for them, i was bored out of my mind but whatever, i guess it was kinda neat. plus, it gave me time to take some of these cool pictures. something i learned though... my family (my immediate family, in comparison to most of my more distant relatives) is not a easy-going group of people. uptight. control-oriented. nit-picky and excessively talky about minute, unimportant matters. they don't get the gist of things, can't generalize. "we" were in charge of planning the picnic on the last day, and they were stressing about it the whole time. they'd talk and discuss and ask for opinions, then decide, then 10 minutes later bring up the same arguments and rehash the entire discussion and then make the same decision again. then my mom will write the decision down and forget it later. sigh. i guess i always knew they did that, but it just became so much more apparent after being stuck with them for a whole weekend. all i'm saying is i'm loving having my own place right now, haha.
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wow, family reunions. i haven't had one in a long time but everytime i come back, it's like mini-reunions cause we get together with family for dinner. luckily for me it's not too painful. family on maui is pretty chill and they're all the same age so it's fun. we play video games and stuff. oahu family on my dad's side is a bunch of little cousins. i'm the oldest and besides my sister the next one is a junior in high school. there are like 9 of them. =) the only thing is you have to answer the same questions a bazillion times from aunties/uncles like "you still in school? when you pau?" "how's portland?" "what do you do?" blah blah blah.
that hotel looks awesome though! don't think i've been there. for my grandparent's 50th we got a hotel somewhere in lahaina and it was pretty awesome. my sister and i got to sleep up in the loft and everyone had their own little area. it's totally weird when you have to do family stuff and are used to living on your own. $35 ice cream buffet eh? sheesh.
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