Morning all,


Have just booked a trip to Hawaii for December. The Aloha Spirit I absorbed into my system in my April trip has been leaking out slowly. The rubber dinghy in me needs a fix. I love doing reasearch for my books, finding ancient sites, gorgeous nature spots in unlikely places for my characters to do wicked things.
The added bonus is that there are no poisonous spiders and no snakes in Hawaii.
There are scorpions, but my local buddies tell me that if you don't give scorpions the time iof day mentally, they do not appear in your path.
Dang, now I have gone and written two sentences about 'em!
I will be going to Oahu and I can't wait. Last Christmas in Hawaii was wonderful. It took me back to childhood in Australia. We had picnics on Bondi Beach and it was too hot for mum to cook so it was vegemite sandwiches (with, of course, sand that always, inexplicably finds its way between two slices of bread) and lime cordial.
Our dessert, Christmas pudding with brandy butter, came later in the day after we'd gone back home.
Since the house I stay at in Kailua is on the beach, it's very much like that except we refuse to give up the turkey and vegetables.
The sand does get in things a bit, but it wouldn't be Christmas to me without it!

Aloha oe,

A.J.