WBDC-Aunty Maile

The Wahiawa Ballroom Dance Club, together with the Party Hearty Wahines (Red Hat Society), all worked together to make the Wahiawa Pineapple Festival Parade a huge success.  Many helping hands came together to make the decorations in one day, one night, and one morning.

 

Patiently the pink tissues for the Cherry Blossoms were cut and made into many small pink Blossoms to be placed on real Cherry Blossom twigs collected in Wahiawa.  Furry hats were made into Red Hearts and Yellow Pineapples.  Flowers were made from purple napkins by the Red Hat Ladies who designed and placed them on their Red Heart Hats.  WBDC members cut  green felt to make the tops for their pineapple hats. With 3 large blank cardboards,  pineapples were cut out with Exacto knives by the men and painted with layers of fresh paint.  Garlands of yellow flowers draped the sides and decorated the hood of the truck.  We saw all of the hidden talents come out that day!

For our parade, we had an American Flag , Cherry Blossom Trees and Pineapples, for which Wahiawa is historically known for. We had a generator running the P. A. System, the D.J., playing some great music for everyone to enjoy and twenty plus people marching and dancing in the streets, carrying not one, but two banners, representing "The Party Hearty Wahines, Chapter of the Red Hat Society, and The Wahiawa Ballroom Dance Club".

Our marchers looked awesome, as some were dressed as Plantation workers (Pineapple pickers), Red Hatters with their purple clothing and red heart hats, and others wearing green and yellow clothing with Pineapple hats.

In the end, we fulfilled all of our goals, had fun and made precious moments together.   We enjoyed the day with friends and had lots of fun prancing down the street.  We just really enjoyed the people who came to see us in the parade that day, and I am sure that the feeling was mutual, because as a result, we won "FIRST PLACE", and was given the title as, "MOST SPIRITED!"

YAY!!!

 

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED

FOR IT IS BECAUSE OF YOU

THAT WE HAD SUCH A POSITIVE, WONDERFUL,

AND SUCCESSFUL EXPERIENCE!

MUCH APPRECIATION,

MAILE YAGI FOR WBDC AND THE PARTY HEARTY WAHINES

 

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