These are just some of the photos I took from yesterday’s Wailuku First Friday.

These are my WEEKLY WINNERS entry for this week. For a more awesome pics, go to Sarcastic Mom Blog and check her photos out – she’s a very talented and takes fantastic photos.  Also visit the other participants’ blogs (links are there) and you’d be happy you did. Lots of nice pics to make you smile

Wailuku town has that funky, friendly small town charm so familiar to

generations of Mauians. And now, with the Wailuku Revitalization Project

in full swing, Market Street has taken on a brand new vibe… The result is a

one-of-a-kind blend of old and new that has residents and visitors flocking

down to shop,  dine, groove with the live bands or take part in the wonder-

fully raucous street festivities every first Friday of the month. Come down

for a great time and help support the local community and businesses!

It’s Aloha Friday!  For those who participate in this bloggy carnival hosted by Kalani, we know that this is the time to talk story about anything an everything. We ask a question and the readers answer on the comment section.  No hard questions, just some topics for a fun Friday. Please come and us.

I posted this announcement of “Wailuku First Friday” on Thursday morning but I thought this is an appropriate” Aloha Friday post” since it’s about Friday Soo…. my question is “what are you doing this Friday to celebrate the Aloha Friday?” For my son and I, we will be at this  Wailuku First Friday event.  Hapa Boy will be selling cookies there to raise funds for him to go to a Youth Camp.  If you are a Maui resident, or here visiting, I invite you to come to this event.  It’s actually a very festive event at the heart of Wailuku town.  I think you’ll enjoy it.  We did

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The photo was taken by me, from our lanai (deck) 30 minutes prior to the supposedly 9 ft. tall tsunami.  Thank God the tsunami turned out to be just about 3 feet all.  It’s been a heck of a day, and I am tired … so only one pic for this week. For more Weekly Winner pics, visit SarcastiicMom Blog.

Whole Foods Market was founded in Austin Texas in 1980, and since then it has grown to hundreds of stores in the USA, UK and Canada.  Whole Foods Market opened up here on Kahului, Maui on Wednesday Feb 24th, and it had a very successful first day! Before I go on talking story about the first day of Whole Foods Kahului, let me back track a little bit and talk about my “sneak peek” experience.  You see, A Maui Blog was invited to have a preview of WFM Kahului on February 17th.

And I was pretty impressed!  I planned to blog about that experience right after the visit but my busy mama life did not allow me to do so.  However, on that day I tweeted away about @WFMKahului and  then uploaded the photos on A Maui Blog Facebook Fan Page for everyone to see what’s inside.  After I tweeted about it and posted about it on my Facebook, I immediately got a couple of comments about “whole paycheck”. Huh?  I was not quite sure what they meant.  You see, that was my first experience with Whole Foods Market (thus the title of this post).  WFMKahului is the very first Whole Food Store I have stepped my feet on. Thanks to Jenn Russo   of A Maui Time, the issue about the “whole paycheck” was explained.

Moving on to the Grand Opening, it was a very festive day!  It was a Wednesday so it’s a regular work day, but I managed to go there for the lunch break.  I saw a lot of people I know like @Peterliu47.  Other Tweeps were there too like @DaniaKatz, @DJSmook and @Raatz. One thing I like about WFM is the variety of choices I have for a meal – the salad bar, the hot food, etc. See photos below:

So for my ALOHA FRIDAY meme, the question is “Do you have a Whole Foods Market near you”? If yes, do you go there? Alternative question is “Do you like cooking”? “What healthy food do you like or recommend”?

No doubt about it, these pics are my Weekly Winners.  I actually have taken a lot of these pics. I think I’d create a slide show later.  For more information on the Whale Origami Project, click here.  For the hub and more links to the Weekly Winners blog carnival, click here or at the logo below:

More pics will be uploaded at A Maui Blog Facebook Page so check it out later.

We are celebrating the Whale Day this Saturday, February 20, 2010, here on Maui. I thought it would be a good timing to ask our bloggy friends if they have seen a whale.  So my Aloha Friday question for today is “Have you seen a whale yet?”   Please feel free to elaborate.  tell us when, where or how.  For me, I have seem the whales here on Maui through a “Whale Watch” with the Pacific Whale Foundation.  Whales are incredible creatures!  If you would like to learn more about whales, please visit the Pacific Whale Foundation site here.

If you would like to know more about Aloha Friday Meme and visit other participants, go to Kailani’s blog An Island Life.  Aloha and have a wonderful weekend.

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For details on Chinese New Year Celebration 2010, click here.

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The sights and sounds of Chinese New Year take center stage at Maui Mall on Saturday, February 20th when the Year of the Tiger makes its auspicious debut. Lion Dancers from the Maui Chinese Martial Arts Academy start things off at 10 am, with a colorful display of stylized martial arts movements beneath the dramatic lion head and flowing mane. The loud accompanying drums and cymbals ward off “evil spirits” while the lion delivers blessings. Everyone is invited to join in and “feed” the lion with lay see for good luck in the coming year.

A Keiki Chinese Attire Contest is up next with prizes and free Good Luck photos for kids in costume. Also for all others, Good Luck photos provided by Photography by Irvin with an authentic lion head from the Maui Chinese Cultural Society collection cost is $8.88 each photo.

Also kicking off a first-ever Chinese Children Art Contest from grades kindergarten to high school seniors for cash prizes. Around noon, Chef Dean Louie from the MCC Culinary Arts Academy will do a Chinese Cooking demonstration which the lucky audience will no doubt get to sample.

Be sure to pick up lunch at the food booths so you can sit and enjoy a variety of entertainment from the Kalimaya Ribbon Dancers to authentic Chinese music by Loretta Lau and Ranga Pae.

There will be free Whole Foods Market reusable bags for the first 500 participants, Tiger and animal balloons for the kids, calligraphy, food and craft booths and much more.

To be continued.  More photos and Chinese New year Celebration on the next post.

Since today is the Weekly Winner day, I picked out some photos from yesterday as my entries.  Here are some of Marilyn’s beautiful design:

I invite you to visit other participants of Weekly Winner Meme. Click the logo below to go to our host’s blog, the Sarcastic Mom (she truly is a nice mom despite the sarcastic title of her blog)