This past Wednesday I had a Touristy Field Trip day with Ala and Chaz! We were all off from work so we visited the USS Arizona Memorial, USS Bowfin, and the Pacific Aviation Museum. It was hot and crowded, but worth it. I haven't visited the USS Arizona since... well the movie "Pearl Harbor" came out. Back then I was BIG Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett fan, so of COURSE I had to visit. The USS Arizona was free but we dished out $17 to go to the Bowfin and Pacific Aviation Museum.

The Bowfin was cool, you could go in the submarine and look through the binocculars, we even took a picture outside, and the people insert the photo into an old looking WWII newspaper (I still can't believe Chaz and Ala paid for a copy of that, it was just plain paper, not even glossy or anything at least at Disneyland it's glossy and you get a cute frame). The Pacific Aviation Museum was so-so, they only had 5 planes, and the flight simulator didn't look that great. Definitely not worth the money, but I hear they are looking to expand the museum, so I hope they add more planes. I saw in the gift shop that they were selling History Channel's WWII in HD on dvd which I LOVED, if I didn't forget my credit card I would've SO bought it. This most exciting part was seeing the jet up close outside of the museum. AND... it was sitting next to a building they used in the "Pearl Harbor" movie!

Oh oh I can't forget that when you take the shuttle to get to the museum, you pass by the airfield that Amelia Earhart tried but failed to take off from. That was pretty cool.

Later that day we planned to hike Diamond Head but they were closed. We settled on dinner at Onos Hawaiian Food and watching "Pearl Harbor" at Ala's. It was a U.S. History kind of day.

When I get a real job, this is what I will miss the most. Random days off in the middle of the week well spent with great company. While we were on our field trip, we thought of even more cool field trips we wanted to go on. I hope we can do it all before I get a new job!

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I am currently trying to pack for my Colorado/Vancouver trip. This whole cold weather thing is really throwing me off because I hear it's not that bad, but I get cold verrry easily. So it's like do I take the Uggs or pack shorts. argh. Not too mention... my Tory Burch flats that I wanted to take (my $110 on sale Tory Burch flats) one of the metal decoration thingys on my heel is coming off! WTH! Luckily Nordstrom will repair it, unluckily it takes a week, so I'll need to find different flats to pack.

Packing my suitcase playlist:

-I Want it That Way-BSB

-Tonight-NKOTB

-It's All Coming Back to Me Now-Celine Dion

-The entire 50 First Dates Soundtrack

-That Faith Hill song from Pearl Harbor

-Random Disney songs.