Wailua Beach House Daytrip

*This post is once again a catch up post that previously happened. But we hope to see you at an upcoming event soon. There will be a list of upcoming events at the end of this post. Thanks!

On June 30, the Fellowship Club did a joint project with Mililani Dharma School, some of the members of Honolulu Jr. YBA also attended the event. For our first join project we decided to keep it casual and have a fun daytrip to Ms Gay Tanaka's Beach House in Waialua. Below are a few pictures of the beach. We even had a friend come to greet us there. He wandered away later than morning :(

Dr. Mark Unno was also in town for the Jr. YBA convention hosted by Honolulu district. He also made it a point to do lectures for the Buddhist Study Center on the Big Island and Kauai. Dr. Unno also came along on this daytrip to Wailua and gave a lecture targeted toward all the attendees and it seemed that he had a great time hanging out and having fun :) Below is Dr. Unno getting ready to throw the balloon to his partner in the water balloon toss.

Koshin demonstrates Suikawari- a Japanese summer game of splitting a watermelon in half while blindfolded. The game is similar to the American version of Pinata

Below are other participants of the Suikawari challenge (sorry I didn't catch everyone's name!)

Rev. Kevin even participated in the Suikawari challenge and actually broke the watermelon in half. As pictured below.

After we cracked open during we had some watermelon to eat and a seed spitting contest of sorts. There was probably more laughing than spitting going on though. 

This girl and her brother got creative and made a helmet out of the watermelon core and later added eyes. Arynn Ishikawa as seen in the second picture below joked that this maybe her Halloween costume this year. Fruit Ninja Arynn.

With Sugi's help we had some amazing food on the grill. Hot dogs, hamburgers, and veggie burgers. Doesn't it look just a bit yummy?!?

After lunch we had a lecture by Dr. Unno and right before Wayde and Grant had a fight over the hammock and Grant won. He promptly fell asleep. All in all it was a good trip out to the Tanaka Beach House in Wailua. We hope to have more partnerships with Mililani Dharma School and other groups in the future.

Ms Gay Tanaka also took pictures of the event and you can find those on the Mililani Hongwanji Facebook page. Remember to like them to get more updates on what the temple is doing! We hope to see you at the next event or future events!

Upcoming Events:

Young Adult Retreat August 10-13 forms here or contact Jake directly at youth@honpahi.org

Freshman Family BBQ August 19 10am

Manoaphobia August 31 6pm

Wayne Yokoyama Lecture September 12 7pm

Hoshin Seki Lecture September 14 7pm

Peace Day Celebration at Blaisdell Park September 22