Everything is outdoors or partially open air, including Starbucks. 
These stoors are everywhere.
A taste of home.
Lanais at an apartment outside our hotel room.A few things I noticed about Hawaii...
1) Everybody waits for the crosswalk signal, even if there is absolutely no traffic coming. I kept wanting to go ahead and cross the street, but Chris was afraid I was going to get some sort of jaywalking ticket, considering nobody was doing it.
2) There are convenience stores on nearly every street called ABC Store. They all have the same stuff and many of them displayed alcohol in the window. Every time I passed one of these stores and saw the Wild Turkey bourbon in the window, I would think how cool it is that I can go to so many places in the world and still have access to my hometown drinking water (although bourbon is gross).
3) Like I said before, there are a LOT of Japanese tourists here. Many things are translated into Japanese and there are trolleys that are pretty much just for people from Japan and duty free stores. One of the oddest things to me were the indoor firing ranges that people on the street would hand out flyers about. I guess being able to shoot a gun is something exotic to people from Japan.
4) You can't help but notice, surfers are hot. Chris and I agreed on this, so he won't mind me saying it (there were plenty of female surfers). We'd watched a TV show about how surfing shapes a rock hard body, and they were right. Makes me wish we had some waves in Kentucky, I'd definitely take it up.
5) I had intended to take surfing lessons in Hawaii, but after the boogie boarding, I was too sore and worn out. I still have my shirt, so maybe I will wear it when we go to Florida for Nicole's wedding.
6) Everyone we encountered was really friendly (except the airline employee who checked me in on the way home).
7) Lanais (balconies) are very popular and people seem to pretty much live on them. We saw them used for everything from storage to laundry facilities.
8) There are very few places that are entirely indoors. Even our hotel lobby didn't have a front on it, just a big open air area. If there were bad weather, I couldn't see any doors that would be shut. It think it's pretty much open air all the time.
1) Everybody waits for the crosswalk signal, even if there is absolutely no traffic coming. I kept wanting to go ahead and cross the street, but Chris was afraid I was going to get some sort of jaywalking ticket, considering nobody was doing it.
2) There are convenience stores on nearly every street called ABC Store. They all have the same stuff and many of them displayed alcohol in the window. Every time I passed one of these stores and saw the Wild Turkey bourbon in the window, I would think how cool it is that I can go to so many places in the world and still have access to my hometown drinking water (although bourbon is gross).
3) Like I said before, there are a LOT of Japanese tourists here. Many things are translated into Japanese and there are trolleys that are pretty much just for people from Japan and duty free stores. One of the oddest things to me were the indoor firing ranges that people on the street would hand out flyers about. I guess being able to shoot a gun is something exotic to people from Japan.
4) You can't help but notice, surfers are hot. Chris and I agreed on this, so he won't mind me saying it (there were plenty of female surfers). We'd watched a TV show about how surfing shapes a rock hard body, and they were right. Makes me wish we had some waves in Kentucky, I'd definitely take it up.
5) I had intended to take surfing lessons in Hawaii, but after the boogie boarding, I was too sore and worn out. I still have my shirt, so maybe I will wear it when we go to Florida for Nicole's wedding.
6) Everyone we encountered was really friendly (except the airline employee who checked me in on the way home).
7) Lanais (balconies) are very popular and people seem to pretty much live on them. We saw them used for everything from storage to laundry facilities.
8) There are very few places that are entirely indoors. Even our hotel lobby didn't have a front on it, just a big open air area. If there were bad weather, I couldn't see any doors that would be shut. It think it's pretty much open air all the time.
9) There are a lot of roosters.
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