GEORGE F. LEE / GLEE@STARBULLETIN.COM When Ala Moana Center's Jingle Bell Express missed its appointed departure time, 7-year-old Bo Coolen, of Manoa, took a look for the cause of the delay.

Jingle bellwethers

From Olomana to Ala Moana Center,
no matter your point of view, it's
beginning to look a lot like Christmas

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DOUG OAKLEY / ASSOCIATED PRESS Jonathan Sampaga, 9, foreground, of the Honolulu Boy Choir, danced the hula during an open house at the Washington Place governor's mansion yesterday.

FL MORRIS / FMORRIS@STARBULLETIN.COM Joining other Cub Scouts from Pack 229 in Kaneohe, Nathan Wassmuth rode this minibicycle yesterday in the Christmas parade through the Windward community of Olomana.

GEORGE F. LEE / GLEE@STARBULLETIN.COM Reina Tsuda, 3, of Osaka, Japan, tried to get a handshake from a Santa-suited cocker spaniel named Chaga at Ala Moana. Owner Jin Nakase, of Honolulu, named his pet after a famous Japanese singer.

FL MORRIS / FMORRIS@STARBULLETIN.COM Flags in hand, a bright-eyed Leihala Dutertre waited for the Olomana parade to begin.

GEORGE F. LEE / GLEE@STARBULLETIN.COM Shielding himself with a stop sign, 7-year-old Micah De Dios, of Kaneohe, seemed to want off of the Jingle Bell Express yesterday at Ala Moana Center.