Hawaii!!!

Thanks for stopping by! Here's the inside scoop on our 'vacation'!

My pics can be found here, and Christophers here.

We left from Anchorage on the 18th courtesy of the ol' red eye (767).

We got off the plane early in the morning and then humidity was the first thing we noticed! We went to the hotel, dropped off the luggage had breakfast and went to the beach.

Not much of a beach. The sand hurt my feet, I couldn't go in the water without shoes because of the sharp coral they have. The do have a walled off section for the kiddies that have no coral and soft imported sand. The beaches in the panhandle of Florida are much better! The only thing better about this one is the surf.

We walked down the beach then asked which bus will take us to Diamond Head. They said 'Bus 14'. We wait and take Bus 14 and all it did was take us through the residential areas. We then got on another bus to go to Pearl Harbor. But that bus went onto the Air Force Base and we didn't have the proper ID to get on so we got off the bus. The Security guy said that the bus will be back in about 20 minutes or so. We went to the bus stop and waited. Got bored after a minute and went to take a picture across the street. Once we got over there the bus came by us and left us stranded. Great. We get the wrong bus again and people can't tell the difference between 5 and 20 minutes. We walked and found another bus that finally took us to the Memorial. We went on the USS Bowfin (submarine). It was very interesting. If you ever get a chance to go on one, do it.

Christophers favorite sub.

We went to the Arizona Memorial.

We went to the Pacific Aviation Museum but there wasn't much to see. We didn't get to see the battleship because the place closes at 5:00 on Sunday so we got a rain check. If people would tell us the right bus number in the first place.... Our waiter that night said they like to get us tourists lost. Something about we spend more money that way. Beautiful! I did notice that people become much more friendlier when they find out you're from Alaska. I guess that we are both like step-children in a sense.

This is our long range radar system for Alaska. It's in the dock for repairs/upgrades. Notice how much taller it is than the carrier to the left?

The people seem to have run out of ideas for naming things.

I think I found out where their marketing department works.

Movie: The warning at the end is only played when you're in China Town. Odd, no?

They had some idiot wearing a moosehead to hand out flyers. Are they trying to appeal to Alaskans?

We tried going to the battleship on Monday but didn't get there until 4:00. Unfortunately, it closes at 3:00. Who'd thought it closes that early on weekdays during tourist season?

It's me in front of the infamous USS John C. Stennis! I'm sunburnt and sore as heck from all the walking. Note to self- rent a car next time.

Movie: This is us leaving Pearl Harbor.

The three of us.

Movie: Some helicopter demo.

Movie: Raymond does Karaoke. It's a real short song. What makes it funny is the lyrics.

They had lots of stuff for us to see and do. Like this cool cyrogenics display. They took a room-temp freeze pop and put it in the liquid nitrogen for about 30 seconds and it was frozen solid. The bad part was that it changed the taste.

Movie: Cyrogenics info.