Day 5
The day started out early, about 4:30-5:00 am early. We got up this early to go see the sunrise. As you can tell from the picture it was a 'little' cloudy.
Here is the view from the parking area outside of Diamond Head crater with the 'beautiful' sunrise in the background.
Next up, the hike up Diamond Head Crater. The hike is .8 miles long and ascends 560 feet up, one way.
It was a little windy at the top.
The view looking toward Honolulu. On the right you can see an old army bunker on top of the ridge, and the green area below is Kapiolani park.
Going down the the four story spiral staircase that was made when this was an active military look out.
In the parking lot of The Pearl Harbor Historic Sites. We actually got here early and decided to have a little nap time.
That's a big anchor. It used to belong to the USS Arizona.
I don't think that is what they mean by man the torpedoes.
This is where the boat is supposed to be to take us out to the USS Arizona Memorial. However the Coast Guard declared it to windy for any boats to be in the harbor so we did not get to get on the memorial.
This picture shows the USS Arizona Memorial, the battleship Missouri Memorial, and the boat right before us that was the last one to brave the winds for the day.
Here is a model of the the USS Arizona memorial. The ship's hull is entirely under water.
The next few pictures are of the USS Bowfin submarine. It had a successful record; Which included sinking a crane and a bus.
That is a lot of gauges and shiny things to turn.
Apparently if the ship ran out of fuel they could just use the hand power leaver.
These two are ready to protect our seas.
Our next stop was to get souvenirs! And there is no better place to get souvenirs than the International Market Place. I don't have pictures of it but it consists of at least a hundred little shops mostly trying to sell the same souvenir items to all the tourist.
We made it home for the evening and settled down with a nice Thai dinner. The kids liked it and...
We even got my sister to eat some.
After dinner it was time for bed!
Day 6
Our last day we went to beautiful Kailua Beach. Sadly it did rain but we still had a great time.
What better way to end a vacation than learning about the stock market from Topher.
It was so much fun having family visit, it's too bad they had to go back to the real world.
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