This year my wife Susan and I spent Christmas in Hawaii. There is nothing quite like the dichotomy of driving around sun-seeking in 85 degree weather with beaches and shoppers and surf, listening to the radio play “It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas” followed by an ad suggesting Wikele Storage is the best place to store one’s goods because it is now 20% off and your possessions will be kept in bunkers left over from the Second World War, all the while keeping in mind that we should wait two more days before swimming because the box jellyfish are here on schedule, ten days after a full moon, then finding out that your instincts were correct, the local golf course will not be busy on Christmas Day and in fact it is closed, macadamia nuts in the front seat and sunglasses somewhere and I’d better find them fast.
The picture below was taken at the War Memorial of the Pacific. Our Christmas was great and we hope yours was too. Aloha.
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