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Grammy with RoseMary Acosta. RoseMary lives in Hawaii and recommended the best places to visit.	View from my hotel room at the Hilton Hawaiian Village.	Anchor from the Battleship Arizona, sunk during Pearl Harbor raid (the other anchor from the Arizona is in front of the State Capital Building in Phoenix, Arizona).
Entrance to Pearl Harbor Memorial site.	At Pearl Harbor Memorial. A section of the park is dedicated to submarines and the role they play in defending our country.	One of the gun sections from a WWII battleship.
The oil slick from the Arizona. The oil will continue leaking from the sunken battleship for another 50 years.	The Battleship Missouri stands guard over the Arizona Memorial.	The actual site (on The Mighty Moe) where Japan signed the Instrument of Surrender with the United States.
The Mighty Mo stands guard over the Arizona	The apartment complex where President Obama lived as a young child.	Hawaiian dancers entertaining at a Luau.
Kathy Schroeckengost on one of the many staircases on the way to the top of Diamond Head.	The view from the top of Diamond Head (after climbing .8 miles, 760 feet above sea level, 271 steps, wandering through a 225 foot dark tunnel, walking rocky switch backtrails and climbing inside an unlit bunker).	One of the sites at the Polynesian Cultural Center. The Center is on 42 acres where you can "visit" eight island villages: Samoa, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, Marquesas, Tonga, Tahiti and Easter Island.
Kathy, Grammy and a new friend from Germany demonstrating their ukulele talent at the Hawaii village at the Cultural Center.	Monument to Queen Lydia Liliuokalani, the imprisoned Queen of Hawaii. She wrote "Aloha Oe" while confined to her room at the Iolani Palace. She was the last monarch to rule Hawaii. The U.S. annexed Hawaii in 1898.	The Iolani Palace. The room at the top (with window shade) is where Queen Lydia was held. She was trying to restore power to the native Hawaiians rather than American businessmen and the clergy.
One of the missionary homes in Honolulu. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased 6,000 acres of land from King David Kalakaua in 1865. The Catholic church also had a strong presence on the islands.	Scene along the main street in Honolulu. Businessmen in suites walked along with guys bare-chested wearing colorful shorts and flip-flops carrying surf boards.	A plaque on the statue of the Duke--father of surfboarding.
Kathy Schroeckengost and Grammy at the Diva Wahine Half Marathon Expo.	The MAC Daddy Pancake Challenge (as seen on "Man vs. Food" TV show). If you can eat this "hot and wild blueberry banana, walnut and chocolate chunk, pineapple, coconut and macadamia nut, cinnamon streusel with vanilla glaze triple-decker pancake" at one sitting, your picture will be added to the Champion board of the restaurant. Three of us, together, just managed to each about 1/3 of it!	Grammy, Vince Occhipinti and Kathy Schreckengost at the Home of the MAC Daddy Pancake Challenge (as seen on the "Man vs. Food" TV show).
Lining up for the start of the Divas Wahine Half Marathon	Some of my new friends who ran the race with me.	An unusual way to start a race!
Hilton beach: Clear water, white sand beaches with Diamond Head in background.

Grammy with RoseMary Acosta. RoseMary lives in Hawaii and recommended the best places to visit.

View from my hotel room at the Hilton Hawaiian Village.

Anchor from the Battleship Arizona, sunk during Pearl Harbor raid (the other anchor from the Arizona is in front of the State Capital Building in Phoenix, Arizona).

Entrance to Pearl Harbor Memorial site.

At Pearl Harbor Memorial. A section of the park is dedicated to submarines and the role they play in defending our country.

One of the gun sections from a WWII battleship.

The oil slick from the Arizona. The oil will continue leaking from the sunken battleship for another 50 years.

The Battleship Missouri stands guard over the Arizona Memorial.

The actual site (on The Mighty Moe) where Japan signed the Instrument of Surrender with the United States.

The Mighty Mo stands guard over the Arizona

The apartment complex where President Obama lived as a young child.

Hawaiian dancers entertaining at a Luau.

Kathy Schroeckengost on one of the many staircases on the way to the top of Diamond Head.

The view from the top of Diamond Head (after climbing .8 miles, 760 feet above sea level, 271 steps, wandering through a 225 foot dark tunnel, walking rocky switch backtrails and climbing inside an unlit bunker).

One of the sites at the Polynesian Cultural Center. The Center is on 42 acres where you can "visit" eight island villages: Samoa, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, Marquesas, Tonga, Tahiti and Easter Island.

Kathy, Grammy and a new friend from Germany demonstrating their ukulele talent at the Hawaii village at the Cultural Center.

Monument to Queen Lydia Liliuokalani, the imprisoned Queen of Hawaii. She wrote "Aloha Oe" while confined to her room at the Iolani Palace. She was the last monarch to rule Hawaii. The U.S. annexed Hawaii in 1898.

The Iolani Palace. The room at the top (with window shade) is where Queen Lydia was held. She was trying to restore power to the native Hawaiians rather than American businessmen and the clergy.

One of the missionary homes in Honolulu. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased 6,000 acres of land from King David Kalakaua in 1865. The Catholic church also had a strong presence on the islands.

Scene along the main street in Honolulu. Businessmen in suites walked along with guys bare-chested wearing colorful shorts and flip-flops carrying surf boards.

A plaque on the statue of the Duke--father of surfboarding.

Kathy Schroeckengost and Grammy at the Diva Wahine Half Marathon Expo.

The MAC Daddy Pancake Challenge (as seen on "Man vs. Food" TV show). If you can eat this "hot and wild blueberry banana, walnut and chocolate chunk, pineapple, coconut and macadamia nut, cinnamon streusel with vanilla glaze triple-decker pancake" at one sitting, your picture will be added to the Champion board of the restaurant. Three of us, together, just managed to each about 1/3 of it!

Grammy, Vince Occhipinti and Kathy Schreckengost at the Home of the MAC Daddy Pancake Challenge (as seen on the "Man vs. Food" TV show).

Lining up for the start of the Divas Wahine Half Marathon

Some of my new friends who ran the race with me.

An unusual way to start a race!

Hilton beach: Clear water, white sand beaches with Diamond Head in background.