It's Christmas Once Again in Hawaii

I'm reposting a cute  Hawaiian Christmas song, It's Christmas Once Again in Honolulu that we get a kick out of.  (Please click on these purple links to hear the songs.)

Interestingly, I found the same song with slightly different lyrics called It's Christmas Once Again in Santa Barbara.  And then there's It's Christmas Once Again in San Francisco.

I wonder how many cities Barry Devorzon sang this song for.

This is our third Christmas back in Hawaii and we're used to Christmas without snow now.  Art and I grew up in the islands, but lived for 35 years in Illinois where things are a bit different in December.  We lived where we could tell it was the holiday season by all the giant menorah lights in front of synagogues  counting down the days before Chanukah and houses everywhere decorated in Christmas lights.  We lived in a close neighborhood so there were a lot of back and forth walking in the snow to get to holiday parties.  There is a certain wonder to walking in lacy falling snow at night with lights twinkling on so many of the houses.

Here in Hawaii, there is another kind of wonder.  For one thing, December is the rainy season as many tourists probably know, and with it are the gorgeous rainbows following you everywhere.  I see this outside my window all the time.

Granted Art is not happy about the clouds preventing energy from getting to his solar panels.

As the song says, we've got a lot of Christmas in our hearts.  Tonight, we're attending a Christmas party where they'll be having lau laus, poke or kalua pork and probably a Hawaiian type dessert.  It will be fabulous fun to spend loving time with these wonderful friends and their family.

We're definitely feeling the holiday spirit!