Sunday night was such a fun evening thanks to all of
you that attended our Masquerade Ball. Thank you for making it such a fun
evening.
For those of you who missed out on this evening of fun here is an account of the evening festivities.
At 5:30pm members of Dance Magic 808 started setting up the chairs and reception table, making the drinks, and DJ, Paul Lee started setting up his music equipment.
Before 6:00 pm we had dancers already coming into the palladium. We had half the ballroom on the kitchen side. Paul started playing his music and the floor was open for general dancing.
We had a couple of hollywood celebrities dancing up a
storm at our ball. There was Michael Jackson (alias Larry Arinaga). We didn't
recognize Larry at all. We did recognize the beautiful blonde Marilyn Monroe
(alias Candace Yap) in her white dress as soon as she walked into
the room. There were a lot of people that came dressed up and it was fun
seeing dancers dressed up for Halloween.
At 7pm, emcee, Audrey Fu, board member of Dance Magic 808 and the former owner of Villa Roma and Chocolates for Breakfast, welcomed everyone to the dance and advised the costume contestants to be sure get a number for the contest which would begin at 7:30 pm
Around 7:20pm, Richard & I did a few presentations, thanking our instructors, (Roxanne Kaino, Line Dancing, Ed Ho & Veronica Munez, Bachata, Lester & Henrietta Muramoto, International Waltz, Robert & Vanelle Hirayasu, Argentine Tango (they could not make it), and Stephanie Shimizu, who assisted Robert whenever Vanelle had to work and could not make it to class. These instructors taught the last class session and as a small token of our appreciation, we presented them with gift certificates. We also acknowledged Lynn Duong, our registrar, who helps out with enrolling our students and does a lot to help the club whenever she can. She is a really nice person who volunteers her time to help everyone at Dance Magic 808.
At 7:30 pm the fun really started. Emcee, Audrey Fu, made the
announcement that the costume contest was beginning. 12 contestants walked
around the room from the kitchen and went 1 and 1/2 times around the room and
ended up by the DJ, Paul Lee. The last contestants were 8 Jack-in a Box men and
8 McDonald's French Fries (ladies). After their walk around the room, they did
the Gangnum style dance and Audrey invited Roxanne (Line Dance Instuctor) and
the audience to come up and participate in the Gangnum style dance. It was a
lot of fun watching and laughing and we were sure the people dancing were having
a lot of fun too.
For those of you who missed out on this evening of fun here is an account of the evening festivities.
At 5:30pm members of Dance Magic 808 started setting up the chairs and reception table, making the drinks, and DJ, Paul Lee started setting up his music equipment.
Before 6:00 pm we had dancers already coming into the palladium. We had half the ballroom on the kitchen side. Paul started playing his music and the floor was open for general dancing.
We had a couple of hollywood celebrities dancing up a
storm at our ball. There was Michael Jackson (alias Larry Arinaga). We didn't
recognize Larry at all. We did recognize the beautiful blonde Marilyn Monroe
(alias Candace Yap) in her white dress as soon as she walked into
the room. There were a lot of people that came dressed up and it was fun
seeing dancers dressed up for Halloween.At 7pm, emcee, Audrey Fu, board member of Dance Magic 808 and the former owner of Villa Roma and Chocolates for Breakfast, welcomed everyone to the dance and advised the costume contestants to be sure get a number for the contest which would begin at 7:30 pm
Around 7:20pm, Richard & I did a few presentations, thanking our instructors, (Roxanne Kaino, Line Dancing, Ed Ho & Veronica Munez, Bachata, Lester & Henrietta Muramoto, International Waltz, Robert & Vanelle Hirayasu, Argentine Tango (they could not make it), and Stephanie Shimizu, who assisted Robert whenever Vanelle had to work and could not make it to class. These instructors taught the last class session and as a small token of our appreciation, we presented them with gift certificates. We also acknowledged Lynn Duong, our registrar, who helps out with enrolling our students and does a lot to help the club whenever she can. She is a really nice person who volunteers her time to help everyone at Dance Magic 808.
At 7:30 pm the fun really started. Emcee, Audrey Fu, made the
announcement that the costume contest was beginning. 12 contestants walked
around the room from the kitchen and went 1 and 1/2 times around the room and
ended up by the DJ, Paul Lee. The last contestants were 8 Jack-in a Box men and
8 McDonald's French Fries (ladies). After their walk around the room, they did
the Gangnum style dance and Audrey invited Roxanne (Line Dance Instuctor) and
the audience to come up and participate in the Gangnum style dance. It was a
lot of fun watching and laughing and we were sure the people dancing were having
a lot of fun too.
Everyone was hoping to win a prize. There were 4
twenty dollar cash prizes and 1 grand prize of $50.00. Our 3 judges who picked
the winners were Janey Wong, Roxanne Kaino & Ann Manuel. Thank you ladies
for being the judges.
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| Gangnum style dancing with Roxanne, Jack, and
the McDonald Fries. Other guests joined in the fun.
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Congratutions to our Winners!!!
1. Most Scariest - Michael Jackson
(Larry Arinaga) - this was really funny. Larry said he should have won best
looking. We really didn't recognize him at first.
2. Most Funniest - 8 Jack-in-the Box
(Wally Soong, Roy Ninomiya, Stan Nakamura, Ed Matsuda, Jimmy Matsumoto, Eugene
Shen, Roy Ohye, & Roy Idemoto). Wally Soong made all the Jack heads. It
looked just like Jack - great job.
3. Most Beautiful/Handsome - Marilyn
Monroe (Candace Yap) - what can we say...Wow!!!
4. Famous Couple - Prisoners in
orange with chains (Paul & Marie Laderta) - they looked too cute to be
criminals, it's those innocent ones you have to look out for.
5. Most Original & Grand Prize
Winner - Anorexic Elephant - Gail Handa & Earl Yonehara. Gail
made this herself from scratch and it was awesome.
There were others that were really cute and some that
were really funny. Thank you everyone for participating in the contest and
thank you to those that came dressed up but didn't enter the
contests.
After awarding the prizes to the contestants, we had 2
different delicious types of rum cake to snack on. Connie Laderta baked several
rum cakes and the others came from Aala Bakery (Arthur & Joan Oda).
Thank you Connie, Arthur & Joan for the ono rum
cakes. Everyone really enjoyed it.
General dancing continued through the evening until
9pm with great music from our DJ, Paul Lee. Thank you Paul for
being our DJ for the evening and thank you Janey Wong for
assisting him.
Richard & I would like to thanked all the
people that helped at this dance event. This dance would not be possible without
the help of our members and we really appreciated everyone's help.
A very big MAHALO to Gayle Kawahakui - Coordinator of the kitchen
& snacks
She took care of bringing just about everything,
like tablecloths, juice, coffee pot, water & juice containers and even
bought the candies & juice. We didn't have to worry
about anything with Gayle around. Thank you so much. Your help and expertise
was really appreciated.
A big MAHALO also to the following
for setting up the tables, chairs, & drinks, cleaning up, working the
reception desk, and serving the refreshments, because of these members we were
able to have a very nice dance event.
Bob & Diane Nishimura
John & Ann Manuel
Stephanie Shimizu
Connie Laderta
Millie Pilkinton
Ben & Lynn Duong
Lester & Henrietta Muramoto
(Hope I didn't miss anyone but if I did, I'm so sorry
and thank you for your help)
A very special MAHALO to Audrey Fu,
who was our excellent emcee. She made our dance event fun with
style.
We would also like to thank all of you
who came to Dance Magic 808's Masquerade Ball. It would not have been
so successful without all of you (100) attending.
Thank you for being a part of this fun evening and we
hope to see all of you at our next event.
I don't have everyone's email address that attended,so
please pass this email to the ones that attended and did not receive this
email.
Aloha and Mahalo for your continued
support.
Lynn A. Nakamura
President, Dance Magic 808
cell 372-2256
