It was two days ago when I last posted on this blog. New Year's day in the US = 2nd Jan in Oz. So how does 3rd Jan less 2 days = 2nd Jan? as appears at the top of my last blog, you may well ask. Well, even the poor computer got confused (under poor management really .. shame!) It hasn't been easy to keep track with the days and dates as I have travelled through many time zones, and my sympathies go out to John in New York or wherever he might be. Jan and I were quite 'stressed' about being on time at the airport for our flight, and kept checking that we hadn't muddle up our plane times/days and dates too.
So here's a catchup with a few 'titbits' about yesterday, the 2nd Jan in the US - the 3rd in Oz before Jan and I flew out of Honolulu at 10pm.
We spent most of the daylight hours at Pearl Harbour. It was only a 10min bus ride from our Hotel so for $2.50, we got out to the 'Official USS Arizona Memorial' after 9am, to find a throng of visitors. The day was overcast at times, a totally different kind of beauty to the spectacular scenes of the coastline the day before (when even the tour operator was 'wow-ing' at the colours of the day.) The bombing of Pearl Harbour on the 7th December 1941 by the Japanese was presented from nearly every angle in an array of 'interactive-style' museums with displays of submarines, battleships and airplanes and we had an audio recording that gave a great guided tour of many of the displays that recounted the stories of those who lived in Hawai'i at that time. Some very sobering thoughts came to me of the more recent but different attack on September 11th 2001 that also surprised many.
I'll let the photos below tell the rest of our day for now.
So here's a catchup with a few 'titbits' about yesterday, the 2nd Jan in the US - the 3rd in Oz before Jan and I flew out of Honolulu at 10pm.
We spent most of the daylight hours at Pearl Harbour. It was only a 10min bus ride from our Hotel so for $2.50, we got out to the 'Official USS Arizona Memorial' after 9am, to find a throng of visitors. The day was overcast at times, a totally different kind of beauty to the spectacular scenes of the coastline the day before (when even the tour operator was 'wow-ing' at the colours of the day.) The bombing of Pearl Harbour on the 7th December 1941 by the Japanese was presented from nearly every angle in an array of 'interactive-style' museums with displays of submarines, battleships and airplanes and we had an audio recording that gave a great guided tour of many of the displays that recounted the stories of those who lived in Hawai'i at that time. Some very sobering thoughts came to me of the more recent but different attack on September 11th 2001 that also surprised many.
I'll let the photos below tell the rest of our day for now.
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