- Cost of Airfare and Car Rental is your responsibility
- Yes, we can start a family weight loss program so that everyone feels their best at the reunion
- Yes, we will have a girls day/night out and a guys day/night out
LODGING COMMITTEE
Willie pretty much hit the ground runnin' with the lodging committee and figuring out what the cost would be per family. Thanks Wil! He has been working with his wife Natalie, as well as Mom and myself (Lahela) with scouring the "VRBO" website. Therefore, the lodging committee members is set and is underway. All of you should have received a phone call from Willie as well as an email with an attached link to the home that works best for our lodging needs. If you have not been contacted thus far, you will be contacted shortly. You can also go to www.vrbo.com and type in VRBO# 128838 to view the description.
Many of you have also helped with looking at various lodging for the whole family. If you have found or find a great place in East-Oahu that would work even better than the one found on the link that Willie sent to you via email (and found above), or if you have any lodging questions, please contact him.
So far, the following families have agreed or are assumed to be staying in the vacation rental: Dad and Mom, Jon and Kahea's family, Willie and Natalie's family, Kolu and Aisling's family, Byron and Lahela's family and Herb and Pua's family.
Chris and Keiki's family as well as Duke and Kathryn's family has agreed to staying in a separate vacation rental.
If there are any changes with families opting to stay at the main family vacation rental, or opting to stay at a vacation rental of their choosing, please contact Willie asap!
Cost of the Main Family Lodging
The cost of this lodging for 2 weeks (14 days) in May or September is roughly $695/night. Since there are 6 families staying here, each family would pay $115.83/night. That is smokin' deal for Hawaii, especially considering the amenities that come with the home. I know you're thinking, "Ok, so I only have to save $1,621.62 for my family." Well, no...sorry. The reality is this - $695/night x 14 days comes out to $9,730+State Tax+Cleaning Fees. There is also a $2,000 Damage Deposit that is required upfront and is fully refundable. To be on the safe side, each family staying at the main family lodging will need to save $2,000.
BUDGET
If you start saving in September 2011 and we have our reunion in...
- May 2014 then... $2,000 dollars/32 months = $62.50 per month must be saved
- September 2014 then... $2,000 dollars/40 months = $50.00 per month must be saved
- May 2013 then... $2,000 dollars/20 months = $100.00 per month must be saved
- September 2013 then... $2,000 dollars/24 months = $83.33 per month must be saved
COMMITTEE'S
I have randomly selected names to help with different committee's, and yes, I broke the Planning Committee into sub-committee's.
Invitation Committee
Dad, Kahea, Jon, Keiki and Chris
*This committee will be put on HOLD until further notice. Please DO NOT contact the extended family yet, because this reunion may just turn out to be for OUR family only since this is our 1st Reunion. It is still undecided at this point.
Activities Committee
Herb, Pua, Kolu and Ash
Food Committee
Duke, Kathryn, Natalie, Chris and Keiki
Finance Committee
Mom, Willie, Jon and Byron
Lodging Committee
Willie, Natalie, Mom, Dad and Lahela
Some of you may see your name on two committee's. This is because you may be experienced on what to do in this area. Get together with your committee and start brainstorming. Keep it simple, don't over think it. Just come up with idea's for now. Skype one another so that you can see and get to know each other better prior to the reunion. We'll talk on a quarterly basis to see your progress. With that said, you don't have to post your idea's on the blog since we'll be talking every quarter. I'll contact each committee at the end of November instead of December.
Talk to you all in November!
Can I just say, "I AM SO FREAKING EXCITED!!!!!!!!!" The committees sound great. The house looks awesome! We want to find a place that's as close as possible.
ReplyDeleteLahela, could you put up a poll that asks if everyone wants to have dinner together every night or if we wanna do half big family dinners and half individual family dinners.
I would love to do the Ambassadors Luau at the PCC one night. I love the idea of girls night and guys night. Also, we would only be able to miss a week of school in September so 5 weekdays plus 2 weekends would be cool. I think the end of May would be better though.
Also, I think there should be a family history committee and I would like to be on it. If we invited extended family for a day, this committee would be in charge of getting updated family info from everyone and passing it out afterward. Also this committee could be in charge of pictures and then a family photo book for each family afterwards.
OOOOOOOO I'M SO EXCITED!!!