The Honolulu City Lights takes place from December 6, 2008 until January 1st, 2009, and this basically means that the area in the city centre (in the area of Honolulu Hale, the city hall) will be lighted with all kinds of Christmas lights. You can also find a variety of status and images and yesterday there was also a parade.
We went yesterday and took a few pictures, let’s start at the beginning. I will try not to give too much comments, there are lot’s of pictures and the description can also be found when you hover your mouse over the images (and it is also written below the pictures when you click on them).
Ok, the first pictures we took while it was still daylight:
We kind of expected that it would be busy for the parade, and it actually became really busy (apologies for the vague picture, I moved a little bit when I took it):
It became a bit more dark now and after some songs by the mayor (yep, he sang two Christmas songs and it was quite ok also) and some words of welcome, the lights of the Christmas tree went on in front of the city hall:
And Honolulu City Lights started with that.. You will be able to find something to do almost every day around city hall until Christmas, there will be, for example, a toy collection with the help of an actual batalion of stormtroopers (we’ll also go that hehe) and yesterday there was also a parade during the opening.
The picturs that follow next are a bit vague sometimes, this is mainly because these are all pictures of moving things and they were all taken by night and as soon as there is movement during night, you will find that back on the photo’s unfortunately. We also skip some photo’s as it will be too much to put everything online (the total parade took about an hour so you know what it can be haha):
I also made a video of the parade (and that’s something I kind of regret, I have a sore arm and got muscle pain all over my body haha) but I have to edit that video first because it is, like said, over an hour of material and that kind of is a bit too much to put online just raw. So that one will follow later.
So after the parade we could either just go straight home, get some food first and watch a bit of the concert, or go inside city hall where the city workers made all kinds of things. We chose to do the opposite (hahaha) and went into city hall first where we found many things such as rare wreaths, gingerbread houses and all kinds of other things (again: I won’t post all the images as it will be too much):
And then we came outside where we took some more photo’s of the lights and after some food we went back towards home. Here are the last pictures:
And that was all for now 
I hope it was not too much photo’s or that you got a bit bored by it.. We will post more photo’s later on as we are also planning to drive around and look at all the decorated houses.
And next to that I also left some other pictures out of this collection since they were a bit blurry, probably because Michelle moved a bit hehe.. (it wasn’t me, I was filming lol). Anyways, here they are:
