January 20,2024

Today was a trip to the Arizona Memorial.  What an amazing tribute to Peral Harbor.  I was there in the mid 70’s and Kim has never been.  In the 70’s it really didn’t mean much to me, but now wow.  I have always said that history lessons are wasted on school children, now history is so meaningful to me.  We learned that there is only one remaining survivor, and he is 101 years old.  The most amazing fact is that the Arizona is still leaking fuel or oil, over 80 years later.  Folklore says that the oil is tears from the men that died that day and it will stop “crying” when the last survivor dies.  Stay tuned!  With the last survivor ageing out at 101, we shouldn’t have to wait much longer to find out.   After our boat ride out to the memorial and back we watched a movie about December 7, 1941.  It was very in informative.  It’s scary that something like that can happen. 

Tomorrow we are meeting up with our old Puget Island neighbors and going to their house for a relaxing day of fun and food.

Itinerary news:  they have removed Christmas Island form our stops because of low water issues and they have hinted about changes when we get to the Red Sea.  More later….So, after Kuai tomorrow we are at sea for either 6  or 7 days.  The itinerary shows 7 days, but we cross the international date line which to me makes it 6 days.

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Out for now,,,,