We actually did a lot of shopping while in Oahu, or at least a lot more than we normally do, which is practically none. Since it was our first time back in the US since moving to Korea we kind of spent a lot of time roaming around Target and Nordstrom Rack, amazed at all the recognizable products we could buy. While in Hawaii, we also stocked up hippie foods and products that we haven’t been able to find or have shipped to Korea. As for real souvenirs, we purchased our usual magnet and ornament and I found a trucker hat at the Patagonia store in Haleiwa. I’m not really sure I’m trucker hat material but this one actually fit my head so I bought it. The rest of the stuff is just random stuff I can’t seem to stop collecting on any given trip.

I don’t know why I enjoy creating and looking at collections of souvenirs so much. Maybe because individually each little memento or scrap of paper holds little meaning, yet when combined together they form an almost three-dimensional snapshot of our trip. Instead of a million photos, this singular image of a hodgepodge of collected items totally sums it all up in as few words as possible. Maybe instead of posting photos dragged out over weeks of blog posts, months (years, even!) after the fact, I should stick to just posting one photo just like this.  I find the thought of an album filled with one photo from each trip strangely appealing.

This concludes the Hawaii posts! For now! And it only took me nearly a year after the fact. Augh. I still have a video that I’m sure will take me another couple of years to compile so keep your eyes peeled five years into the future. We now return to our regularly scheduled posts on daily life…