As you can imagine, Christmas isn’t quite the same in Hawaii is it is in New England. It would get a little chilly, down to the mid 60′s! But it’s amazing that so many people get in the holiday spirit here. Almost more so than back home. I surprised Kate with a “Hawaiian” christmas tree that we got to pick out and cut down. Amazingly, we had it up for over a month and it never took any water!
This is the field that we got to pick from.
Here’s what it looked like all decorated. You’d be surprised how you can’t hide the lights as easily when you don’t have many branches 
Here’s one of my gifts. No, it’s not that cold that I needed a hat. It’s a paddleboard paddle cover works nicely as a hat as well.
Even Lewy was getting into the holiday spirit!
Every year they hold a boat flotilla where everyone decorates their boats. Pretty different than any christmas parade we’ve been to!
Downtown Honolulu also brings out the Shaka Santa!
And what Christmas day would complete without a trip to the North Shore to see more big waves??
