Hawaii: Day 6

Sadly, this was our final day together here in beautiful Hawaii. . .Happily, we made the most of it and had another awesome day!

We started early and went to Pearl Harbor. We took the tour which started with a short video documentary about the events leading up to the attack on December 7th 1941. Afterwards, we boarded a small Navy Ferry that took us out to the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial that sits in the water directly over the sunken ship. It's a really somber, special place to be. It's pretty impressive to be at ground zero of the start of World War II and also have a view of the ship, the U.S.S. Missouri, where WWII effectively came to a close with the Japanese surrender on September 2nd 1945. Hope you enjoyed the mini history lesson. It's a really impressive place to see.

The rest of the afternoon was spent enjoying the sun on Waikiki beach. We played in the surf, Shawn did some more snorkling, and Monica and Emily worked on their tans. It was nice to just relax since we've kept ourselves pretty busy the past few days.

And that just about wraps things up. I (Shawn) just dropped Monica off at the airport and am getting my stuff together for work tomorrow morning and then I'll be heading home tomorrow. As we were leaving for the airport, the sky turned all pink and beautiful, a nice Aloha farewell and a great ending to our awesome trip.

We had such a great time here! We've been really blessed with Shawn finding not only a job that he really likes and is pretty good at, but also one that has given us the opportunity to do this trip. together.