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I covered snorkeling, and the road to hana, and the chopper ride, but how did we spend the rest of our trip?

Doing less.

We still did plenty, we went to Oahu and ended up having a great time with friends, who were also in Hawaii (the Fey’s), and we hit Pearl Harbor, but tried to let us all wind down with some more  time in the pool and at the beach.. These pictures reflect that.

Mack went to surfing school!  He did real well, totally fearless, paddled out with his instructor and had a bunch of good attempts to get up.. I think he swallowed a gallon of sea water, which is not fun, but kept trying and eventually made it!!

We went early, try and catch some good breaks off the reef..

The video is short, but that’s Mack on the surf board..

Before we left Maui, we went to “town” and saw this massive Banyan Tree – seriously large dude.

Big tree.. makes boys look very small

We then flew back to Oahu (Honolulu) with our boogie board in tow.  Common practice in Hawaii is to get a boogie board, use it and enjoy it, and then give it to strangers as you depart… we enjoyed the custom.

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In Honolulu, we decided to visit Pearl Harbor.. a) because it wasn’t a full day, like 2 hours, and  b) it was free  It was actually great to go, you see a film and it really hits home how crazy it must have been during this time and to have our backyard bombed like this.. as well as better understand the dynamics for why and how the Japanese did it.  What I didn’t know, until now, was that the monument is sitting right above the USS Arizona, which remains at the bottom of the harbor, in plain sight!  Some pics to show..

Stunning sight..

still underwater after all these years..

The Feys

Our hotel in Honolulu had a nice room, but a crappy pool that didn’t allow any toys in the pool – no floats or anything.. we knew we were in trouble.  Thankfully our friends were up the coast at a really nie JW Marriott, with a great pool and private lagoon for fun in the ocean!  Alan took me snorkleing, the kinds played, we enjoyed an amazing sunset, and checked out the hotels cool pond with massive sting-rays and hammerhead sharks.. check these puppies out!

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