USS Arizona Memorial Honolulu

Today we started off with breakfast at Denny's. For what you get, it works out at about 1/2 the price you would pay in Australia and at least 30% more food. We then got pre-paid sims for the phones. I don't know why, but anything involving phone compnies and mobile phones just has to be more complicated than is necessary. For reasons no one can …

It's great setting the alarm for 6am when on holidays but it soon proved well worth it. The tour guide did seem to be a little over enthusiastic about his plants and trees so it worked out to be a bit of a botany tour at the same time – did you know that Hawaii has 42 different varieties of mango – we do, because he mentioned it about …

We left out
of Atlanta, GA on the day of the cruise at 6AM on United Airlines.
We had two flights in all to get to Honolulu. The first was from
Atlanta to Chicago. This flight was fairly painless and in just over
2 hours, we landed in the Windy City. After a 1.5 hour layover, we
boarded another United Airlines flight to …

We woke up sore and bruised from our surfing the day before. We also woke up super early so that we could get to Pearl Harbor early. We managed to get there around 7:45, and got a 9 am ticket. I wonder what happens when you go any later! To pass the time we took a walk around the whole area. This took up plenty of time. We got to see some old …

Sunday the 12th of May we packed up from turtle bay resort and made our way back across the island. We stopped off at the Pearl Harbour memorial centre on the way. This was a very educational, interesting and moving experience. It consisted of a few exhibits then we watched a movie and were ferried to the USS Arizona memorial.

The USS …

While stuck in traffic on our way to Pearl Harbor (Google maps did not take Honolulu traffic into account when it predicted a travel time of 20 minutes) I noticed that we were behind an SUV with Montana license plates. This was even more interesting, because just the day before my husband had commented how there weren't that many out of state …

... Harbor is a place which most impressed me during the trip. It is a sad place to visit because it features the USS Arizona Memorial, dedicated in 1962 to commemorate the lives lost during World War II. On December 7, 1941, Japanese attacked on Pearl ...

... 65 years which have passed since the attacks on Pearl Harbour (December 7th 1941). We visited Pearl Harbour and the USS Arizona Memorial, one of the battle ships sunk by the Japanese which killed nearly 2000 American soldiers. This sunken ship is to ...

... 1941, when Pearl Harbour was attacked.  After this very eye opening documentary, we headed out on boat to the USS Arizona Memorial, which is floated above the sunken USS Arizona which you can see beneath the memorial.  Amazingly, you can ...

... fixed tomorrow.  After the maze, and a train tour of the Dole Plantation, we headed to the USS Arizona Memorial @ Pearl Harbour.  We took the awesome and informative audio tour, but will be returning for a boat ride out ...

... with bright blue sea. Lots of surfers, Barn hired a board. Yesterday we took the early tour (6.15am) to Pearl Harbour, USS Arizona Memorial. 7th Dec 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, forces US in to WWII. The USS Arizona sank in 9 minutes with ...

... cool and a huge museum, so there was really a lot to see here. At 11.30am I had a free ticket to the USS Arizona Memorial. We watched a video first about the attack on Pearl Harbor and what happened to the Arizona during the attack. Out of everything ...

... of world cuisine on the planet which seems to reside in there. Ugh! American commercialism! I hastily made my way over to the USS Arizona Memorial to find that I had an hour and a half wait before I could get to the actual memorial. But never mind. There ...

... USS Bowfin before watching a moving video on the attack that happened in 1941. Then followed the short boat ride to the USS Arizona Memorial where we could see the sunken vessel and a tribute to those who lost their lives and who are still entombed ...

... on the 2 hour ride to the Dole plantation. Interesting they hide all the workers from public view! Today I went to the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbour... very surreal to see the battleship underneath you. Then it was off to a giant flea market ...

... Pro-America (Hoo-RAH) video portraying us as amazing and Japan in WW2 as dirt. Then we took the ferry to the USS Arizona memorial, stood around, looked at the sunken ship and imagined how many soldiers call that their grave, and left. I kind of ...