Hawaiian Christmas

This post was written on 12.14.05

Christmas in Hawaii is a lot like kissing your dog; a sweet gesture but missing the essential ingredients of purpose and reason. In the same way your dog might appreciate a little action every now and again, the big picture is that no matter how much you love your dog, he still licks himself clean, with occasional snacking.
I understand if the island can't quite get into the holiday spirit, being that it still feels like July. The season here brings a lot of tourists, which makes it no different than any other time of year, and its hard to decorate without snow as a theme; that would just be silly.
That said, people don't really get jazzed about the holiday, a vacation/celebration from the norm, perhaps because every weekend brings them that vacation most long for all year (and it seems even during the week for some locals). They seem to lack the zest for the holiday that mainlanders due if for no other reason that it's cold as hell in most places of the US and it gives us something to do inside.