Pearl Harbour.

With Pearl Harbour being so close to Waikiki we wanted to go see the USS Arizona memorial and the museum there. We set our real early as we had been told you get enormous queues but of course everyone has been told that so everyone goes early and that's when the queues are. We arrived - massive queue, later when we came out there was no queue!

It was well worth it though. Hearing about what happened that day December 7Th 1941 (a date drilled in thanks to the videos, leaflets and museum there...I have no hope of forgetting it). The USS Arizona was one of many battleships that were lined up on Battleship Row at Pearl Harbour that morning but unfortunately was one of those that suffered the worst of the onslaught and fatalities (1,177 crewmen died aboard the Arizona). We went out to the memorial (by boat) that is a white bridge thing over where the USS Arizona is still there underwater sunk. You can see the top of the funnel and some other parts sticking out of the water and there is still oil escaping from the fuel tanks that can be seen on the water which is crazy. The shrine room there had all the names and so I did that weird thing you do when look at a memorial plague and look for those with your surname - with a name like Williams you're always guaranteed at least one!

It was eerie with the boat being under your feet I guess, but nice too as it's a tomb for those who died and those that survived can have their ashes put down there later too. It was really thought-provoking and interesting stuff and we're glad we made the trip out there.

But Afterwards our heads were filled with so much information and so we headed to a diner called Denny's and I tried French Toast (another thing I always hear on US shows)...didn't like it much but it was OK.