We have been having a great time. On Friday, I braved the City Bus and headed to Pearl Harbor alone. Brad gave good instructions and things went pretty much as expected. It was a slow ride with lots of stops and interesting people getting on board.
I got to Pearl Harbor and took the walk down to the visitor's center and ticket booth. After looking it over, I decided the movie, boat ride, and the viewing of the Arizona was all I was interested in. I got my ticket (free) and had about 2 hours to wait for my turn. I viewed all the displays, read about them, and walked around the Memorial for all those who lost their lives when the ship they were on was sunk in WW II. It has their names on the plaque along with the name of the ship, the commissioning of the ship date, and the date it was lost along with the battle history of the ship.
After walking around, I decided to get the head set to talk as I went on the tour. I found out that most of the things I had been looking at were discussed on the audio tour. At 11:15, I got in the movie and they took you through what lead up to and what happened on Dec 7, 1941. We were taken out of the theater and on to the boat (skipped by a young navy lady captain). We got out of the boat and unto the Memorial that is situated right on top of the Arizona that still has almost 1000 navy sailors in tombed. At one end was the names of all those killed on the Arizona.
It was a moving experience and one that I wish all of you kids especially, could experience and bring a real history lesson to life. I have way to many pictures of the day at Pearl Harbor that I would be happy to share with any of you.
It is now almost noon and we are about packed up. We will spent a little more time in the sun and then the long, long flight home to Christmas. It's hard to believe that it is almost Christmas. The Santa's hats on the beaches just don't do it for me.
It has been a great experience and really fun to meet the friends that Brad works with and to watch him do his thing at the games. (I was no help at all). Everyone treated me very nice and it was fun to be with them but it is time to get home.
See you all really soon!
Love you all,
Dad and Grandpa
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ReplyDeleteYou have a little girl waiting at your house when you get home. I hear that she is opening her eyes up real wide now! Can't wait to get back there and see it for myself. I figured out today, since I left Kate and the kids in Wadena on Saturday, I will have missed about a quarter of her life so far!
Sounds like you had a great time! I look forward to seeing some of those same things some day with Katie!