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Mele Kalikimaka! Merry Christmas from Hawaii everyone!

Mele Kalikimaka! Merry Christmas to one and all! There is nothing that compares to having Christmas in Hawaii...some of the differences you expect: no snow, lovely warm weather, no coats or boots cluttering up the porch... but some of the differences can really take you by surprise;
$95.00 for a tree! And then the tree is 4-6 feet tall & looks like a cross between a pine and a palm! (Norfolk Pines are very cool but a little challenging to decorate as they have 4-5 branches located laterally around the trunk every 12-18 inches and each branches has no other branches so it almost looks like a palm frond, there is usually about a dozen or so branches total, the ornaments end up being hung in a line from the trunk out to the tip of the branch, cute but not what mainlanders are used to.)By the second week of December all bulk deliveries have been made...which means that if you wait until December 19th to buy presents, decorations or Christmas dinner...you may be out of luck. Almost everything is delivered to the islands by ship and the merchants do not over order because the profit margin is just to tight ... more

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