Monday of Dan's visit, we spent the morning at the Pearl Harbor Arizona Memorial. I hadn't been down there since the new visitor's center opened in December. The new site is gorgeous, it is all opened up with wide ocean views. A huge improvement over the old center. We spent some time walking around the grounds while we waited for our tour start time. The tour of the memorial was somber as always.
When we finished that, we headed over to tour the battleship Missouri. I had never toured that vessel before, it is a pretty impressive ship. When you walk up to it, the thing is HUGE! It is one thing to see a picture, but another to stand right in front of it. I didn't care for our tour guide, but the ship was interesting. I've toured the submarine they have at the site before and if i were serving, I'd definitely rather be on the battleship than the sub. Much more spacious (not to mention fresh air)!
We had Cole with us for the day too and he even did pretty well through all the tours and info. He was especially impressed with the big guns on the battleship!
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