Honeymoon Time!

We went to Honolulu, Hawaii for our honeymoon. I highly recommend that you visit Hawaii sometime in your life. Jon and I promised each other that every 5 years we're going back. Watch out Hawaii, I'm coming back 2013! We were thinking about taking the kids there, but screw that! If they want to go, they can pay for themselves!! haha jk. It was so weird that I had no one to take care of (except myself) for a whole week! If we wanted to go somewhere, we could just GO, instead of having to find someone to baby sit our kids. One night we didn't want to be in our hotel room, so we just walked to the beach. Moving on! I have tons of pictures so this will probably be a 2 part post-thang. Just to show you how clear the water is!! This is where they filmed part of From Here to Eternity... and then that big wave comes splashing down...
We took a submarine ride and we saw sunken ships and airplanes that crashed. While we were down we saw sharks, tons of fish, sting rays, and my favorite sea turtles! Arrrrr!! Sea turtles!! Strapped to my boots! (sorry Pirates of the Caribbean moment) This is the U.S.S. Arizona. When you go there you have to watch a 20 minute movie about what happened. And they have a lot of footage of the devastation. The reason they had this video of everything was because one soldier wanted to show his parents where he was and what he did, so he was filming and then hell broke loose. I cried. These were kids that were under attack, 17,18,19 yr olds. A lot were brothers. I felt so bad for the parents. I don't know what I would do if both my boys died. And Nathan is driving me nuts because every time he sees a military commercial he says, I'm going to do that. I know he's only 5, but its like, what if? He's been saying it for 2 years now...anyway. Whatever he does, I'll support it! This is the oil that is leaking from the Arizona. Right when you step out on the memorial you can smell the oil. And the feeling is just so heavy. It's hard not to cry. Right before you go to the memorial they tell you, "This is the soldiers grave, please have respect for them and reframe from talking." And while most people kept it quiet, only the really old people and the Japanese were talking loud. I can get the old folk, perhaps their old, hairy ears don't work anymore...but the Japanese, I don't know. God bless Japanese people, I don't hate them, but it makes you paranoid when they are talking loud and laughing at the memorial. That's all I going to say about that! ...uh.. onward!
And this is the U.S.S. Missouri. It also was damaged during the air raid, but they were able to salvage it. It was amazing to see that battleship. Truely amazing! Def. see the U.S.S. Arizona. There is also a museum of what the kids did on the ships (baseball teams, etc.) as well as the telegrams that was sent to the families about there loved ones death. Well that is all I'm going to post for now. I'll get another post up soon!!