beach fun, Canada Day, and a visit to the USS Arizona Memorial

Battleship Missouri

We all really enjoyed the USS Arizona Memorial tour - learned lots! We did the audio tour, that is a must as it tells so much more , a very sad day for Pearl Harbour!
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http://www.nps.gov/valr/index.htm

Marg and her girls joined us that day! It was a hot one! Steve and Kyle stayed on and toured the aviation museum while all of us girls came home early, had lunch out then came back to the yacht club for a swim!!! We love that pool - it gets used a lot by us, everyday morning to night -

Here are Kyle and Maya taking it all in!

Here is part of the USS Arizona - its hard to believe that is was over 60 years ago that happened!

the girls out on the memorial-

Watch out the kids have the big guns! Lots of cool stuff to see here!
I had a good look around, its really neat to look through a parascope!

Miss Emma having a looksy around!

These guys are in side a sub! cool,eh ?!
We had a great Canada Day celebration on board the Orca III - had the crew from Malachi, Heather and Rachel, and even some americans - new friends Ray and Ramona and kids, and the crew from Galatia. A good time was had by all. We ran all of our signal flags up both forestay and backstay and even put the giant Canada flag at the top of the mast - We were noticed!!
The kids had fun sitting up there singing the anthem!!
Ramona, Jocelyn, Rachel, Dionne and Marg all saying hi to our friend " Elizabeth from Shambala" - turns out Ramona and Ray know Shambala - what a small word!
"Dionne and friends" - me and my good buddies - loving Canada Day together! and yes we sang the national anthem!

Rachel, Kyle, Maya, Jocelyn and Jenny

Beach fun for us on Waikik Beach - the Malachi girls , me and my kids all met up with Rachel and Heather at their hotel and had fun at the beach. These guys had a blast playing in the surf - it was really quite high that day big waves. We even rented boogie boards for them to use. They all had a blast , while Heather and I enjoyed our visit on the beach, I tried the boards but got total filled with sand. I am still getting sand out of my bathing suit 2 days later!

Oh the sunning beauties -