happi july 4th.

for the last several years, i've been vacationing alone to oahu the last week of june.  i met my friend, robbyn through roy's during my visits.  she would tell me about their upcoming july 4th event and would tell me that i should just stay another week so i can celebrate july 4th with them.  well, that extra week obviously never happened.  every year, as my annual solo-vacay came around, i would wish i scheduled my vacation a week later, but due to personal reasons, that was never an option...  

one of the highlights of me moving to oahu and working for the original roy's was that, i was FINALLY going to be able to attend (work) the july 4th party!  let me give you an overview of what happens...

we called it "roy's july 4th bbq bash" this year - we get permits to barricade from our lounge/patio area to the sidewalk, the entire lawn is ours.  we sell tickets and we have our own july 4th bbq party for our guests.  we roasted two whole pigs, hot dogs, chilli, corn on the cob, poke station, cotton candy, rootbeer float and lemonade stand and much more.  our regulars and guests came in the afternoon, ate, mingled and at 8pm, they got to watch the fireworks.  it was a lot of planning, but definitely a lot of fun!

the hostess girls and i wanted to make cute t-shirts for this special occasion.  my two lead hostesses decided to tie-dye t-shirts and put the roy's logo on the back.  here's the production process...

the girls tie-dyed the shirts so i don't have photos of that, but i went to my friend, jp's office and ironed on roy's logos.

pretty neat right?

i brought my friend, lauren along with me to help.  turns out that lauren, who works for bubba gumps and jp made a great networking connection!  :)

jp, whose one of my sous chef's brother, who also has made shirts and hats for us, had extra smaller roy's logos, so we decided to put those on the front of the shirts.

cute right?!

modeling.

sexy modeling.

view from the roof of the restaurant at 4pm...

pig roaster

bretty-poo, krizpin, brother and wayland about to roast the pig!

showering the pig with some salt

sexy ah?

pre-shift with the staff!

how come the boys are so sexy?!

i made this sign!  i painted a slate of wood with chalk board paint!

look at us with our fabulous shirts!

tomtom, joshie-poo, chalesey, nicky and kinjo.

steph, kalena, sheila & teves

travis & mitchell

kinjo with the cotton candy...  his arm/arm hairs were so sticky!!  buahahaa

alan & evan

police officers from next door came for a visit.  ;)

my love, maile!

view from the roof around 7pm

ciera, chalesey and i - the shirts came out amazing!  we got lots of compliments!

love!

so we played a trick on zameer, out general manager.  ciera hid in the box and asked zameer to pick it up.  haha he freaked out so much he tipped the box over!  hahaaaa!

july 4th bbq bash was definitely a memorable day.  HOT day, but fun day.