Dalat Backyard Luau

With school back in full swing I had some anxiety. As the PTO President, I was in charge of 3 big upcoming events at the kids school. I started planning this since last April when Larry Chinn (Dalat's Director of Development) approached me about wanting the PTO to put on 3 divisional parties for the following school year. However, at that point, summer was just arriving and no one on the committee really wanted to put much thought into it. Therefore,  I had received no help from anyone in the early stages. This put me in a hard position. I could not just drop the ball and wait till August to figure out a theme, decorations and food for over 1000 people. So I came up with some ideas of my own to Larry and he liked them and so I ran with it :)

My plan was to go with a Hawaiian Luau theme. 

The food....Hawaiian Haystacks! 

I bought 30 kg of Pork and 20 kg of Chicken for the first party!

One of the many trips we had to take on our elevator as we were setting up.

Some of the cute PTO moms preparing some of the toppings.

The junior class helped serve.

Aaron made me the palm trees out of pineapples :)

Larry had arranged for a roasted pig at each of our events.

More photos of some of the PTO ladies.

The clean up took us several hours to wash and put away everything.....times 3!

Darby had put together a fun playlist of great songs which made the party even better!

I am happy to report that the parties were all a huge success!