Hawaii Day 2-Pearl Harbor

Today, we visited Pearl Harbor. Hearing and seeing more details of this historical event was pretty sobering. Just one more reason to remember and appreciate the service of our military!

Hawaii-We're Here!

We're here! We left PDX at 10:15, arrived on Maui five hours later. Then, we caught our connecting flight to Honolulu an hour after that. Seeing the beautiful waters of Hawaii from the air for the first time was a thrill. Although, it was cloudy and gray when we arrived, it was beautifully warm and the skies did brighten up a bit before long. We got our rental car and drove to our hotel in Waikiki. It definitely is the big city around here. This place is hoppin'! It took us almost an hour in traffic just to go about seven miles. Looking forward to seeing some countryside, even though it's always fun people watching too.


We got situated in our hotel, and both decided that we were starving, so we headed out the door and found, of all things, Planet Hollywood. Hey, we were hungry and it was close by! We'll do the more traditional food...maybe tomorrow!


After dinner, we walked another block to....the beach of Waikiki! Woohoo! The sand is very tannish-brown. Not like our gray-brown that we have on our Oregon beaches. Very pretty. A little coarser than ours too. Not soft at all.


We ended our long day watching our first sunset on the island of Oahu. Walking back to the hotel, we discovered a Cheesecake Factory and guess what they had?! A 30th Anniversary Chocolate Cheesecake! It was just meant to be! Sorry, I'm too tired to download the picture that I just took of the cheesecake. You'll just have to use your imagination!



Aloha for today!

Packing

Packing for a trip is always exciting to me. It's just one of those last things that you've got to do leading up to the big day that makes it more real. Because we've been planning our trip to Hawaii for so long, it seems wierd that it's actually only three days before we leave. Since this is a longer-than-usual trip for us and because of where we are going, we're packing differently. In the last week, I think we've made four trips to the store just trying to think of all we need to pack. And, as usual, we probably won't need half of what we think we will need...but that's OK. We can always bring it all back with us.