HAWAIIAN ADVENTURE PART 3

3 Days in Paradise with chuck and the girls.  After a week on the Kona Coast of the big island in a somewhat rural environment, the girls and I flew to Honolulu to meet up with Chuck for 3 days over Memorial Day weekend.  From back country Hawaii to Waikiki tourist madness.  It was quite a change.

Our hotel (Marriott)  was right on Waikiki with a great view of Diamond Head from our balcony on the 23rd floor.  We could also see the beach from our room.

 

 

 

 

As was appropriate for Memorial Day we visited Pearl Harbor, which was very emotional for me.

 

This is the Arizona memorial.  The round metal structure just behind us was one of the Arizona's gun turrets.  The actual guns were removed and installed on another battleship during WWII.  As many parts as possible were scavenged from all the destroyed ships in Pearl Harbor and put on other ships to speed up construction of ships during the war.

We saw the beginning of WWII with the Arizona memorial, and the end of the war by touring the battleship Missouri where Douglas McArthur accepted the unconditional surrender of the Emperor of Japan.

 

 

The next Day we went to the North shore to see the Laie Temple

 

The BYU Hawaii campus

 

 

And the Polynesian Cultural Center

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We absolutely loved having this time to spend with our girls in paradise.