We rented a car today.  It took them a long time to get our car, so we got an upgrade.  It wasnt as cool as you think, it was a convertible mini cooper.  It wasn’t a bad little car, its just that it did not help the unfortunate rumor associated with our trip.  If you don’t know what that is, then I am going to go ahead and keep it that way.

First we headed over to Pearl Harbor, here are some pics from the USS Arizona Memorial.

These are the names of the men who died on that ship December 7th, 1941.

This is what remains of one of the gun turrets, it was one of the few parts of the ship that are still above water.

The top of the ship lays just below sea level.  You can see part of it just below the surface of the water.

After Pearl Harbor we headed over to by buddy Larry Garrett’s Church.  He just moved out here about a week ago, and so we got to hang out and catch up a bit.  We also went searching for our mutual college buddy Caleb Fetui.  I played volleyball with Caleb in college, but when he went back to Hawaii in 2003, I did not have his phone number, and he does not have a myspace or facebook account so it was really hard to keep in touch with him.  Anyway, we found an address for him in the white pages, headed over to his place only to find 8 apartments with the same address.  We asked around and found someone who knew him, he gave us his number.  We called, and well we will see if he wants to call us back.  We definitely tried though.

After hunting for Caleb, we headed up to the North Shore.  We wanted to go their for a few reasons, the snorkeling, the turtles, the awesome beachs, but most importantly to see some of the places where they film LOST!  We did find the other’s village, check out this short video.

We also went to this little beach near Pohaku Loa Way, where turtles beach themselves all the time.  If you are ever in Hawaii go there if you want to see some turtles, we saw three on the beach, and 2 in the water while snorkeling.  Its just a small beach north of Haleiwa.  This turtle’s name is Brutus.

We ended the night with a bromantic look at the sunset.  It is an odd thing enjoying so many wonderful parts of creation not with a girlfriend or wife, but a dude that you spend entirely too much time with.

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