Sunday, April 14, 2013

Spring Break- Thursday

Day 6
Thursday April 4

I've mentioned how we get pretty tired after these long fulfilling days we are having, well today was the longest and most tiring. Not only being out in the sun all day, but we were walking all day, and were up at 5:30am and got home at 10:30! Well what did we fill our day with do you ask....

It started in line at Pearl Harbor. We were told that if you don't get there early you probably won't get a ticket to go out to the USS Arizona. So we got there 45 minutes before it opened and got some great tickets. The reason you need tickets is because you go in a theater and watch a movie about Pearl Harbor and then you take a boat out to the memorial. What I didn't know was that they built the memorial over the actual sunken ship. I learned a lot about what happened that day that I did not learn in school. After the ship sunk there were about 900 men still on the boat that they could not retrieve. They deemed it their final resting place and it is considered a very sacred cemetery. Men who survived but want to be buried with their ship now can as they are cremated and a diver go in and releases their ashes. The other neat thing is that the ship still has oil in it and they will not go in and remove it because that would be altering the ship which they are not allowed to do. So slowly every day less than a quart of oil is released into the sea until it all runs out. 




 This picture above is really cool to me because it is President Roosevelt's first draft of his speech. His famous line, "a date which will in infamy." Really started out as a day that will live in American history. I am glad he changed it because it sounds so much cooler.








After spending the morning at Pearl Harbor we loaded back into the car and drove to the Dole Plantation. This is apparently a must see for everyone that goes to Oahu, but I think it also helps if you like pineapple and I don't! My friends all got the famous pineapple ice cream and I tried it and still don't like pineapple.





We felt a little like sponge-bob square pants who lives in a pineapple under the sea...

We did not spend much time there because the main attraction for the day was yet to come. We headed over the to Polynesian Cultural Center.  This was a place we were all a little excited for because we had heard so many great things.. and they did not disappoint. Also because what is sexier than a nice Polynesian man!?


 They put on really great shows that kept us laughing throughout the whole things. That man is really good at climbing trees, he went up like a monkey!


 The Tonga show was probably the best because of this man from Japan. He had not a clue what he was doing but it made for a funny show. There was also a guy from Canada and one from US. They had to finish the Tongan's beat that was a familiar pattern, but none of them were understanding yet somehow the whole crowd knew and were trying to help them. The Japanese man here was supposed to give him a high five and instead he slapped him in the chest hard! The Tongan guy had no idea what was going on, but again it was really funny for the rest of us.
 There is a boat show every afternoon which has all the countries come out on a boat and they do a little performance. They were all so good.
 One of my favorite things in the islands was we learned how to make this fish out of a bamboo leaf! He even goes fishing if you pull back and can fling him forward. He entertained me for a long time.

After a long day of walking around the best part was upon us! The LUAU! At the PCC you can stay and have dinner and a show and then go to another big show at the end of the night. Of course we signed up for the luau, we had to go to at least one being in Hawaii! We also got our first real flower lei's which was so exciting...they smelled so good!


Before dinner started they had dancers going and we had really great seats right in front of a stage. I love the big bow looking thing the man is wearing!


I am glad they showed us who we ate after we were already done. I have had pig before and this was not my favorite. The purple roll on the other hand was simple delicious. I have no clue why it is purple, but we were a little worried at first.


After the awesome luau we went to the show HA Breathe of Life. It was about a boy growing up in the different islands of Polynesian and how they would raise a son. There was mostly dancing and amazing fire throwing skills going on. I wish I could have taken pictures but that was not allowed.



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