GOLFERS TAKE A HOLIDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS
KA’ANAPALI–A day after Christmas, golfers and residents paraded their carts all decked out for Christmas in a sojourn around Kaanapali, visiting each resort.
CIRCLING AROUDN THE WESTIN
TWO: 12 DAYS OF MAUI CHRISTMAS
Kahului–Santa wears a plumeria as he learns of little ones desires at Queen Kaahumanu Center. Check out my new site normbezane.com
MAUI CELEBRATING A WHITE CHRISTMAS
A festive evening at Kaahumanu Center as the “snow” flew, Maui Friends of the Library handed out hot chocolate and keiki floated the Friends bookstore nears series to pick out a free book. The Maui Friends of the Library is ending one of its most successful years.
IT SNOWS ON MAUI FOR WHITE CHRISTMAS
Ka’ahumanu Center, Dec 15==Maui kids who have never seen snow got a taste of it as flakes flew on the islands largest shopping center. Amazingly the flakes were even a bit wet. Watch for more.
JOY TO THE WORLD LAHANA STYLE
Lahaina, Dec 11–Angels, sheep, stars, palms, kings portray the scene of the birth of Jesus, join together afterwards.
How many hundreds of leis did it take to take care of a big crowd on Kaanapali Beach?
Kaanapali–The largest crowd this blogger has ever seen alongside the Kaanapali Beach path enjoyed the fragrances of beautiful leis. How many. Close to 1200 people gathered at the Hyatt Residences. What were these people doing there? GOOGLE Voices of Aloha on Magical Maui for more provocative photos.
IN 12TH POST OF MAUI CHRISTMAS SERIES, THE BLOGGER AND FAMILY HIGHLIGHT OUR 2015
KA’ANAPALI, MAUI, Dec. 25.Blogger and family wish everyone a Happy New Year through this belated Christmas card highlighting what we did in 2015. Details below the montage. SCROLL DOWN FOR DETAILS PLUS 11 OTHER POSTS FOR WHAT CHRISTMAS WAS LIKE ON MAUI THIS YEAR…SCROLL DOWN FOR ALL 12 POSTS OF THE 12 PHOTO POSTS ON MAUI, CHRISTMAS DAY, 2015
OUR YEAR IN WORDS: HIGHLIGHTS
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE BEZANES AFTER ANOTHER EVENTFUL YEAR
•Norm and Sara complete sale of Chicago apt.; norm suffers through 0 degree weather to put everything in storage. (January)
•Sara campaigns for new board at Vintage condo association. elected president. (March)
•Daughter/grandson visit Maui; we send in our income tax. (April)
•Norm in Honolulu wins two awards as finalist for best column and best independent journalist in Hawaii from Society of Professional
Journalists. (June)
•Sara takes lead as board member of Maui Friends of the Library picking graphic designer for $180,K book mobile to be given to state
Sara/Norm spend three months in Chicago with grandson/ family, get
rids of all our things in storage unit and attend many concert, Cub, Illini games’ Norm diagnosed as losing brain cells (no surprise to you)
•Norm appears on 30 minute WGN radio on 50,000 watt station to talk about his books and Maui.
•Sara wins praise for producing harmony at the Vintage, completing a major rehab of the rec center during the year with input from 22
owners December
•Norm completes 325TH Lahaina News column since 2006, completes 300 Joys of Kaanapali blog post, struggles to finish formating of fourth book (December)
Little dog Kea Aloha petted by 300th visitor at Starbucks, Norm types 250th typos of year in email (Decmbur)
HAPPY NEW YEAR
TENTH POST OF MAUI CHRISTMAS: WHAT WE DID IN KA’ANAPALI
KAANAPALI , Dec. 25, 1 p.m. –In the tenth of the 12th photos of Christmas series on what we did here, we see scores take a dip in the ocean and the high waves today as others lined or rested on the shore. SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE POSTS AND THE LAST ON CHRISTMAS MAUI 2015.
JOYS of KAANAPALI 
