I recently had the terrible misfortune of being sent to Hawaii for totally legitimate work reasons. If my boss so happens to read my blog we worked really really hard and barely found time to go to the beach. 😉

This was my first trip to Hawaii ever (work related or not!) so I was pretty excited about the whole thing.  My first impression is that it’s an interesting mix between Florida and Japan.  There’s the humidity, palm trees, and sandy beaches littered with surfer bums… but there are also so many Japanese tourists here that there were signs in Japanese and the sushi restaurant we stopped at spoke Japanese.  I was very confused to hear Japanese being spoken like normal and then ended with a hearty “aloha!” Wait, what?!

Much to the continued chagrin and/or confusion of my coworkers I carted my trusty camera with me pretty much everywhere I could and took photos of everything.