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Post #366773 by Haole'akamai on Thu, Mar 13, 2008 5:22 PM

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First, Let me thank a few (okay, a TON) of individuals who opened their wallets and gave graciously and with impunity! [Please email your snailmail so I can send you a "thank you" all proper-like, will ya?] In no particular order, Mahalo Nui to:

**Martiki
RikiTikiTavi
Paul C. (I've forgotten your TC name - You need to post more!)
The Jab
midnite_tiki
JenTiki
DangerGirl
BoraBoris
Tikitastic
Grog
Ojaitimo
Chongolio
Hanford Lamoore
CheekyGirl
Hiphipahula
Tiki-Kate
BettyBleu
Tai Won On
Otto
***and last, but not least, *
Princess_P

If I've somehow missed you, my apologies. PM me and I'll revise. :)

Also, I would like to thank dibroc, JenTiki (again!) and weirduncletiki for supplying goodies for The Winner's Circle. Mahalo!!

So, my Photoshop still is sick, but I went and spent time to get a couple of photos together:

This one is the FRESH, ready-to-roll Thayer. It was taken at 9:45am on Saturday morning; I'm putting on my dance shoes for the first time that weekend.

We had several costume changes throughout the event. When we were brainstorming about themes, I insisted we have Aloha Wear (Wasn't a hard sell with fellow culties). Here's TofuJoe and I in matching Ui-Maikai, brown with orange hibiscus. It was taken about 9 hours into the event.

This one is of TofuJoe and I holding "the check" that Dance-a-thon reps gave to The City of Hope at the end of the event. It reads $170,000.00, but as the totals are finishing up, it looks like the actual total is closer to $183k. You can kinda see I'm wearing the cocktail dress we made from event shirts (it won the t-shirt cutting contest).

More photos are on the CotE Dance-a-thon web page.

All in all, we had a super time and I think I'd like to do it again next year. I hope y'all won't mind if I call on ya again when the time rolls around. :)

Much Love,
~T

p.s. Oh, and here's a photo of the booth of one of the other teams with their cancer info-board (every team had to choose a cancer and give information about it). Funny, MrSmiley wasn't anywhere in sight. Or was he?.....


[ Edited by: Haole'akamai 2008-03-13 17:55 ]