New Apartment and Hawaiian Christmas Tree

While no one has exhibited much sympathy for the fact that there is no snow here, avocados are always in season, and its always 80 during the day with no humidity, it will be hard to adjust to the rhythm of the almost imperceptible seasons. So, while there are lights up, Christmas displays in stores, and the second advent candle is lit, it feels like the same summer month keeps repeating. It's basically the Hawaiian sequel to Groundhog's Day. The weather is great, but it is strange when time is passing, but there is not way to tell that it is. I know, boo-hoo.

Well, the one fun thing is that we just moved out of our basement apartment this last weekend! We were both so happy to get out of the cave we have been living in for the last three months. The new place is a small one bedroom, but it's just perfect. It's really cozy and we didn't need to buy a lot of furniture because there was a built in kitchen table with benches, and the previous tenants sold us some of their furnishings.


Here's the view from the front door, looking through the kitchen into the dining/living room.


We have a small loft in the bedroom, which is super good surfboard storage.


This is the view of our backyard.


Here is our little bedroom, the only real piece of furniture that we had to buy was this bed.


Here's our cute Hawaiian Christmas tree! Our old landlord cut this tree down at her house, so I kept it in a bucket for a few days and then I trimmed it down to apartment size. The locals like to have "mainland" trees, but this one is really cool.


We didn't have any ornaments, so we made little ones from sea glass that we collected awhile back.