Photos of Hawaii

The USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor


Looking through the top of the memorial


The State Capitol of Hawaii


Inside the open-air section of the capitol...do you see the volcano?


Mandi and Queen Liliuokalani (with the palace and banyan trees in the background)


The Royal Palace


Josh and a giant banyan tree (or two or three...it's hard to tell!)


Breathtaking flowers at a mid-day picnic stop


North Shore and its giant waves...that's a lot of whitewater!


Looking out to sea from Hanauma Bay


An adorable little mongoose in mid-stride


This lame little bird seemed to like getting its photo taken...or maybe it just wanted more of the pretzels I was snacking on!


Josh carefully attaching the surfboard to our rental car...yes, we chuckled when they gave us a PT Cruiser (Cornthwaites, we felt like Grandpa and Grandma Frazier, only this one wasn't a convertible!)


One of our first surfing stops - White Plains Beach. It had beautiful water, though it was lacking in good waves.


A pretty little island at dusk, spotted as we were driving around the coast of Oahu


A very interesting tree on the beach provided much needed shade from the intense morning sun


The pineapple plantation had signs posted of how far away different locations were...in case you can't read the sign, Guam is listed as 3,797 miles away. That's pretty far for a long weekend getaway! What really cracked us up, though, was the fact that the North Pole was only 3,027 miles away...so we were closer to the North Pole (which has always seemed ridiculously far away!) in Hawaii, than home!


A beautiful flower on the outskirts of the giant maze


In the middle of the maze...what direction should I go this time??


Ha! I found Josh!