pearl harbor

we had a leisurely morning before heading out to pearl harbor to take in the uss arizona memorial. once arriving, we had about an hour and half before our movie/boat trip time, so we opted to take the audio tour through the small museum and grounds that really did an amazing job of giving an overview of the us military presence in hawaii, it's history, and the entire morning of dec. 7, 1941 that led to the bombing of oahu by japanese planes and the devastating loss that occurred there, not just to the one battleship, the arizona.


it was a good experience to go, and i have a much better understanding of the 'bombing at pearl harbor' event. we were there the day after the 9/11 anniversary, with that memory still very fresh in my mind, it was, i think, that much more moving to be in a place that honored those that we have lost through war.

after the visit to the memorial, we had a few hours before we were supposed to meet diane to retrieve our pictures (which i already posted...see below!), so we drove around the pearl city area and then decided to eat lunch in the oahu version of a denny's - breakfast 24 hours a day and really nothing hawaiian on the menu other than spam (more on that later - did you know spam was super popular in hawaii???)

jason took this opportunity to FINALLY have his spam and egg breakfast (if you've seen 50 first dates, you'll understand why this was a necessity for him). the restaurant also had like 20+ flavors of pie - so i tried the coconut custard (and by 'tried', i mean i ordered a slice and was brought a 1/4 of a pie....um, all of which, i'm sad to say, i ate).

it was back to our resort to try to catch the sunset, but for the first time since we'd been here, it was cloudy and had rained heavily, and alas, there were no good sunsets to be found. ironically, the one that was the best was the one our first night there, when we weren't really taking pictures.