Today we had another great day here in Hawaii! We woke up a little earlier, to leave for Pearl Harbor at 8. There, we first went to the battleship U.S.S. Missouri, to do some volunteer work at the ship. Basically, we swiped the handrails, and it felt good to help keeping the historic ship nice! After that, we got a tour around the ship and got a good insight in how the ship was used by the military while in service. We got to visit the little barbershop, the laundry room, and even the jail on the ship!
After the tour, we went to the Pearl Harbor Memorial Theatre to watch a short but intense movie about the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, December 7th 1941. When we got out from the theatre, everybody seemed to look at the place in a different way – this was the actual place where the bombing took place 70 years ago. We went on a boat that took us to the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial – a place where you could actually see the sunken ship under the surface. The fact that there were 1,177 marines buried in the ship right under us, was very touching and you could notice it on everyone ’s face who was there. On one of the walls you could read all the names of the people who passed away when the ship was bombed and sank. On a small part of the wall, some names of the few people who survived in the attack, but died later and were buried on the sunken ship afterwards.
So, this was quite a serious day but very interesting and we were all glad that we got to see it.
When we were done at Pearl Harbor, we were picked up by our bus and we went to have lunch at a mall close by. Then we spent the afternoon at a beautiful beach called Waimanalo, and after that, we returned to our hotel before we went out for dinner.
Time flies by so extremely fast here in Hawaii, and tomorrow is sadly our last whole day. We are all very sad that the trip is soon to come to an end, but it really has been the best week in the United States so far!
Aloha and Mahalo!
Eric & Susanna from Sweden
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