Elevator Secrets Revealed

Oh my goodness you guys. I just figured out a mystery that's been bugging me for like the entire time I've been here. It's great. :D

So our Hale has an elevator, cause there are three floors and some days that's just too many stairs for college students. I'm sure that there are other more substantial reasons too, but that is the main reason it gets used. But ever since I got here I noticed that our elevator is a really strange rectangular shape. Like not a normal elevator rectangle shape. And it doesn't even make sense because there is totally room to make it a normal elevator rectangle shape. 

But then Lydia and Chelsea rented surf boards and went surfing. I didn't go because I had class. Also I'm not super interested in surfing. Is that terrible? Am I a terrible Hawaii resident? I feel like I would be so bad at srufing though, and it sounds like if you aren't good at it basically just goes like this:

What people say: "Let's go surfing! It will be so fun!"

What actually happens: death/drowning/impaled on a coral reef/exhaustion/eaten by a shark/all of the above

Maybe I'll try it someday. We shall see. :) But anyway, so they went surfing, and they didn't die, which was wonderful, and then the next day Lydia asked if I would come with her to return the surf board and we could go catch dinner afterwards. So we headed off, and she pressed the elevator button, and I was  a little perplexed, cause that huge surf board was not going to fit in that elevator I was sure. And Lydia was like, "Yeah it will" and sure enough it fit perfectly from corner to corner. 

And the odd shape of our elevator finally made sense. 

They had to make it the right size so that it would fit a surf board. Cause we live in Hawaii and people actually own them and getting a surf board up and down the switch-back stairs would be really really awful. :)

I was so excited. :)

This isn't the greatest picture of Lydia and the surf board in the elevator, but when we got down
to the first floor someone was waiting to ride up, so we couldn't linger and have a photo shoot.