Pearl HarboR

Rose early today and arrived at Pearl Harbor about 8.30 to collect our free timed ticket for a tour of the Arizona memorial. Our tour was to start at 12.40. I nearly didn't bother thinking that it was too long to wait but since it was free .....
Tess was in the queue for tickets to USS Misouri and the aviation museum so we thought we may as well see how much time we could kill.
The Missouri was impressive. Last battleship of the US fleet and only put out to pasture after Desert Storm.
Our guide was an Hawaiian sailor (retired) and he became emotional at several points on the tour which was touching, considering how many he times he must do this tour. Missouri was the ship that witnessed the Japanese surrender ye t lost none of her crew in battle.
Tess always wondered how such a heavy boat can float. It's blueprints weighed 350000 lbs! Young ones look it up.
I forgot to mention that it was cool, wet and windy most of the day so retreating below decks was welcome and a reason we included the Paci fic Aviation Museum in our tour. It was a single hanger run by a NGO and compared unfavouribly with National war memorial so we did not tmarry.