Time flies!!

Whew its been 10 days already since my last post! We've been busy Christmas shopping and it has been gorgeous weather up til today, so we've been spending a lot of time outside. Yesterday we went to Kailua Beach. It was lovely but the water was cold. We also went to the botantical gardens to scope out good picnic, camping, and wedding sites. Our friends Peter & Jasmine are probably coming here to get married in January so we're going to find the most beautiful parts of the island for them to see. The botanical gardens were fantastic and the light was really nice in the morning. I'll post some photos later. There are a lot of unusual flowers out at the moment.

We're just putting up our Christmas decorations. It doesn't feel right to have a Christmas tree in Hawaii where its so tropical so I got an enormous poinsettia plant for the presents to go under. Its about a metre high and looks much more at home in our tropical surroundings than a pine tree! Strangely, people do get pine trees - they're incredibly expensive because they are shipped over from the mainland!

Lots of people have great Christmas lights up and I found a street near my gym where every house has the most outrageous number of Christmas lights. Its excellent! I'll have to dig out my tripod and take some photos.