Tuesday, January 27 Pearl Harbor

For some reason I woke up at 1:30 am. So it was a full day.  I saw the beautiful sunrise from our back porch, deck, lanai, whatever it's called. 

There are these balls hanging in the palm trees in our backyard. We couldn't figure out what they were. So I posted the photo on Facebook and asked my friends. Turns out they are fishermen's buoys, something to do with the nets.

When it got light, I took a walk to the local stores. Our rental house is on the Kamehameha Highway, which is a 2-lane highway up to the North Shore.  That's the highway we drove on Monday.  It's kind of busy , but there's room to walk.

Our carport is pretty small. It's kind of an adventure to back out onto the highway. Mona acts as the lookout for Karl.

We drove back to the southern side of the island for our visit to Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona Memorial.  It seems they've done some upgrades since I was there last. You can now make reservations for your entry time so it wasn't too crowded. It's a beautiful location to have been visited with such tragedy. The guides do a great job of keeping the mood solemn and respectful.

We then went to get some shave ice 

And were off to Diamond Head.  

Karl and Ramona hiked the trail while Bill, Rose, and I enjoyed the sunshine and waited for them to return.

We were then off to a January shabu shabu restaurant. Mona and Karl had eaten in this style in Japan and wanted to try it in the States.  Shabu shabu is a Japanese dish. It is thinly sliced meat-- pork,beef, or chicken--cooked quickly with vegetables in a boiling sauce, in a pot on your table. You then dip the meat into a sauce and eat it with chopsticks. I just read that on Google. I wasn't quite as clear on it when we were cooking it. I think I thought it was going to be a big pot of soup. They bring you all the meat and vegetables and fish in raw form and then you cook it at your table.

After a leisurely meal, we were off to Leonard's bakery fo malasadas. Like Ramona says YOLO! ( you only live once).

We then drove back to the lovely Nani Kai Hale (beautiful beach house) where I ended the evening in the hot tub.  Day is done.