{"id":501,"date":"2012-08-02T15:05:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T19:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=501"},"modified":"2012-08-02T15:05:09","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T19:05:09","slug":"our-hawaii-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=501","title":{"rendered":"Our Hawaii Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"

We just returned from a fabulous week in Honolulu where the skies were blue, the ocean\u00a0 even bluer, and it was 80 degrees every day.\u00a0 Oahu is our favorite island, mostly because we aren’t sit-on-the-beach kind of people, so there is more to do in Honolulu than anywhere else.\u00a0 That’s not to say we didn’t sit on the beach and play in the pool a lot because we did.\u00a0 The kids took surfing lessons every day, and we built sandcastles and spent time in the pool.\u00a0 (We also did math homework and read from the school reading list, but that’s a topic for another day.)<\/p>\n

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In addition to our usual visits to the Bishop Museum and the Honolulu Art Museum (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts), we paid a visit to Pearl Harbor.\u00a0 Jim and I had been years ago, but this was the kids’ first visit.\u00a0 The USS Arizona Memorial is moving enough to break your heart.\u00a0 The tour of the aircraft carrier USS Missouri is amazing, both because of the sheer size of the ship and because of the role the ship played in history.\u00a0 (Among other things, the deck of the Missouri is the place where the Japanese signed the surrender documents ending World War II.)\u00a0 And the tour of the World War II submarine, the USS Bowfin, is not for the claustrophobic.<\/p>\n

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I was also fascinated at the number of Japanese tourists wending their way through the Pearl Harbor sites, as if they were visiting just another tourist spot.\u00a0 But, perhaps, they were learning things they didn’t know, just as Americans do when visiting Hiroshima.\u00a0 (It was still weird, however.)<\/p>\n

We also ate our way through our vacation, dining at our favorite restaurant, Alan Wong’s, twice (more about the meals in a later blog post) and at our second favorite restaurant, Roy’s, twice as well.\u00a0 This is in addition to the meals of ramen, sushi, and kimchee fried rice that we consumed.\u00a0 (And let’s not forget the shave ice.)<\/p>\n

If you’re interested in travel tips to Hawaii, you can mouse over the Travel section of my website and click on Hawaii for my Hawaii travel tome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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