library

Obviously Honolulu is a big city and there are plenty of bookstores there, and on the south side of the island. But up here on the North Shore (a solid hour drive to Honolulu) we can not for the life of us find a freaking book store. I've asked around and everyone shrugs their shoulders and tells us they have no idea where a bookstore is. I even went searching, with no luck, through the resort near us for one of those "book swap" shelves that so many resorts in the Caribbean have. You know, the one where you leave the book you just finished and then pick up a new book that someone else left.

So I went on the Hawaii State Library system website and saw that for $10 you can get a temporary resident library card. We went to the Kahuku Public Library this morning, which works double time as the Kahuku High School Library (how cute!), and got our temporary card and checked out a bunch of books.

The library was absolutely adorable and there was a children's section (keiki section) and a new releases section that had books that were just released like a year or more ago. ha. At one point a school bell rang and a class full of 10th graders spilled into the library. I noticed that none of them were wearing shoes and as we were leaving I saw a sign that everyone has to take their shoes off before entering the library. The Gallaghers would have loved it there!

BTW, Patrick is reading Under the Banner of Heaven, the Jon Krakauer book about Mormonism and I got Ka'a'awa by O.A. Bushnell who wrote Molokai (such a good book!). Oh, and Piper got about 800 princess books.