KOSC had a Holiday party and they advised us to dress “festive”. Well, knowing this group I thought it’d be a little more casual, so I wore my favorite Christmas onesie (which, for the record, is a bit warm for Hawaii). Anyway, it’s like 60% people dressed really nice, and 39% dressed in ugly sweater-ish type attire, and I was like… the most outlandish. But I received so many compliments! And everyone enjoyed my festive-ness.

Anyway, I brought a cool ornament from Micromahalo . The blue pieces are micro plastic from the beach.

The host was the base CO and his wife, so you can imagine their house is huge. They live in the house that Eisenhower stayed in after WWII. Apparently it’s called the “Kane’ohe Bay White House” but I can’t find much about it online beside this. You can see it has a massive open space for hosting.

It also has a gorgeous view of the ocean as you can imagine. The husbands were our bartenders. It was a truly fantastic night. We had what we call “mando fun”, mandatory fun, meaning you’re all going to take a picture inside this frame or else.

We also collected a lot of toys for a toys-4-tots type program on base.

It was such a fun night, and I’d love to keep doing ornament exchanges past Hawaii. No stress, no swapping… just raffle style. It’s hard to see, but I got a santa playing a ukelele riding a sea turtle, and that’s PERFECT.