Saturday~Our Last Day

We said good-bye to our lovely house (the square one) and headed down the middle of the island in search of the Atlantis submarine at Waikiki Beach
We found the sub pier without too much trouble . It is directly in front of the Hilton Hotel. You take a ship shuttle out into the ocean about a mile

As you approach, the sub surfaces. The Atlantis poeple are a private organization that is trying to restore the reefs all over the world. They 'install' artificial reefs like sunken ships so the coral can grow on them and invite all the critters to live and feed there

Here we are inside. It was very awesome and one of the great highlights of our trip. Each person has a porthole to view outside.

The underwater pix aren't great but here is a pretty good one of one of the sea turtles swimming around the 'reef'.

There was a family with 3 small children on the sub with us. The children were darling and so excited. The oldest one-a boy-attached himself to Dad and was so excited to show him all of the things underwater. You could fill out a checklist of everything that you saw. we even saw a shark (rare) and the little guy was so.o.o. excited!

I guess that he could tell a good grandpa anywhere!

Diamond Head from the sea shuttle. We did drive up to the other side and look out over the valley.

Pink Flamingos on the grounds of the Hilton. They are very beautiful in real life and seem much more pink.

Finishing off one of Ted's bakery chocolate pies in the parking lot of the USS Arizona Memorial

We tried several times to get on the USS Missouri~where the war ending treaty was signed. Between the Parks service and the military, we kept getting bad information. We tried to get on too late on our Wednesday trip so we stated we would come back in a few days. They forgot to mention that it wold be in dry dock in a few days.

So here it is in the background as we drove away in the bus from the Air Museum.

We were very disappointed.

This is the Punchbowl Memorial Cemetary for those who have died in military service. This is a national cemetary and we did not realize how many there are around the world. It is a huge place~

They told the story of the war in the Pacific Theater by these mosaic displays. Everything is done in little tiny colored stones

Here is part of the panel of the display. It extends to the right quite a distance

Lloyd and I at the top of the memorial.

The whole trip was so very enjoyable. After we left here, we found some excellent food in Chinatown in Honolulu and then off to the airport.

It was a wonderufull week.

Thanx to Lloyd and Peggy for planning it all!