Pearl Harbor Honolulu

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Made it to Hawaii fine! Jetstar was a nice flight actually!! Good food - About $15 for a dinner just a FYI!

Went for a stroll down the main beach with some friends I made on the plane - Bart and Jerry (Sounds like I am making there names up! Im not!)

Checked into my Hostel one block from the beach close to the …

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From the trivia, many of you know that from Maui we headed to the island of Oahu, home to Pearl Harbor. It is one of the most visited islands as it also is home to the capital city of Honolulu. By the time we settled into our accommodations it was 11:30 - 22 hours after we woke up! What a long, …

Entry containing 52 photos titled: Waikiki, Turtle Bay Resort, Exploring the Island, Watching the Sunset, Haleiwa, Hawaiian Lifestyle, Pearl Harbor

Turtle Bay Resort: We stayed here for the first 4 days of our honeymoon. I found this hotel by searching where the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall was filmed at and decided to book it. This resort was very nice and had many things to do to keep us entertained. We went in September so it was very secluded and we had the beach to ourselves most of …

Entry containing 6 photos titled: Pearl Harbor, Conference Center, USS California Historic Marker

First on the agenda was a visit to Pearl Harbor. We had purchased our tickets online as we had heard that tickets to see the USS Arizona Memorial always snapped up fast. We caught the bus down there and had ample time to check out the bookstore and the surrounding memorial plaques and exhibitions on the grounds before taking the ferry over to see …

Today we had every intention to just relax. So we went down by the pool and sunbaked but then got bored after a little while. The boys went on the Pearl Harbor tour while the girls went shopping. We went for a walk down the main street, and went into most of the ABC shops that we found before we got really hungry. We found this little food court …

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Na Queenstown ben ik doorgereisd naar Christchurch. Na al de aardbevingen daar is er weinig meer van over. Grote delen van de stad zijn nog afgesloten en er is helemaal niks te doen. Ik heb er ook maar een paar uur doorgebracht om mijn vlucht naar …

Today we went to Pearl Harbor. It is a very somber memorial. We also went by the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. It is also known as the Punchbowl. The cemetery is in a crater of an old volcano. After this stop we had to quickly to return to our hotel to get our luggage and head to the airport …

We tried to sleep in...hard to do when the sun is shining so bright and there are no blinds. Then again who wants to miss the amazing weather when you have rain and snow at home. Mom went in the kitchen to make tea and saw some reminents of "Rascal" plus some ants and roaches for good measure!
We all got up and headed off to Pearl Harbour. The …

... USS Arizona Memorial, dedicated in 1962 to commemorate the lives lost during World War II. On December 7, 1941, Japanese attacked on Pearl Harbor, and this event marked the entry of the Americans into World War II. December 7 seems like a very special ...

... before! We shopped and bought the ubiquitous pooka shell necklaces and bikinis at Hilo Hattie's. We toured the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, and had someone take our picture with a cute Navy guy who had a broken leg. We immersed ourselves ...

... Japanese surprise air attack on Dec. 7, 1941, that temporarily crippled the U.S. Fleet and resulted in the United States' entry into World War II. During the Pearl Harbor Attack the USS Arizona sank with a loss of more than 1,100 men; a white concrete ...

... picked us up at 6:15am which came quite early after our ordeals yesterday.  But the tour was nice - we started at Pearl Harbor and visited the Dole plantation, saw many scenic outlooks, got many useless facts, and saw many beautiful mountains and ...

... a large military presence here and it sure seems like a nice place to be based, except during WW II, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and sunk many ships and destroyed many airplanes parked on the ground. After the war, we became friends with Japan ...

... was a video presentation prior to being ferried to the memorial, which was very moving and informative. During the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S.S. Arizona was hit with bombs from the Japanese fighter pilots that flew right over the beautiful Hawaiian ...

... Trolley around Honolulu which was pretty sweet.  And that was about if for yesterday. Today, we went on a tour of Pearl Harbour and Honolulu.  This began at 7:00am.  We first headed out to Pearl Harbour and reserved a spot on the boat ...

... a stage set up with live music playing the whole time so it really wasn’t too bad. At 9 they shot off fireworks over Pearl Harbor so we got a good view from the balcony of our hotel to watch them go off. ...

... a shock - but a nice one and we spent several days together. Of course no trip to oahu is complete without a trip to pearl harbor about half an hours drive from waikiki - you can imagine that this was a terribly emotional place. the uss arizona is still ...

... back to the car, then on to the hotel for a bit of rest before dinner. FYI, I did get quite a bit of video while at Pearl Harbor, but unfortunately our laptop doesn't have a firewire port on it and the PCMCIA card we have doesn't fit into it either, as ...