Hau‘oli Makahiki Hou!

Happy New Year from Hawai'i!

We spent the evening cooking dinner at home: Wild caught Mahi Mahi, oven roasted potatoes, asparagus, and a pesto topping for the fish, and of course bubbly since we were celebrating!

We had a nice evening at home listening to music and revisiting events from 2014. At about 11:30pm we walked up to a hill in our neighborhood. This park overlooks most of Honolulu, providing a nearly 360 degree view. It proved to be a very popular spot in our neighborhood on New Year's Eve. At midnight we watched fireworks displays from a couple places along the waterfront, and many private fireworks from people's homes. Some people even launched some from the park we were in! Fireworks have been a big part of New Year's celebrations in Hawai'i. A recent ban has made it difficult to get large fireworks, but it appeared as though many people had some left from previous years.


That's someone's private fireworks display behind us!
After the fireworks were done a group of people got out paper lanterns, lit them, and let them go. I had never seen this in person before. It was so beautiful. Once they got up in the sky they disappeared so quickly.





Happy New Year everyone! Cheers to 2015!

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