TOAST: May 2007

Aloha! Trumbles in Hawaii IV - Military Stuff

From: Dan Trumble
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 7:14 AM
Subject: Aloha! Trumbles in Hawaii IV - Military Stuff

Of course, while we were in Hawaii we visited the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial. The Arizona was sunk quickly during the attacks of 7 December 1941 and more than a thousand men lost their lives. Many were entombed in the ship and their bodies were never recovered.

Andy and Amy live on the base at Hickam AFB and it is a short walk to the water of Pearl Harbor affording the opportunity to see some of the equipment of the U.S. Navy. Pretty neat.

U.S.S. Arizona Memorial

The kids and an anchor from the Arizona. According to the sign (inset) the anchor weighs over 19,000 lbs.

Depiction of ships in the harbor and those that were sunk or sustained damage.

The Memorial sits atop the sunken ship.

A list of lives lost.

While standing on the Memorial you can see the ship resting beneath the water (and sticking up out of the water a bit). Oil still leaks from the ship 65 years after it sunk.

Ford Island is the island that sits in the middle of Pearl Harbor. This is a picture of the kids on Ford Island with the Arizona Memorial in the background.

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Other Military Stuff

Jim and a ship.

The boys as a sub passes by.

Dan and a big ship.

The U.S.S. Utah was also lost during the attack in 1941. The Memorial for the Utah is on Ford Island.

The bunch of us (except for Andy) at the Utah Memorial.

Will and a big ship.

Jim and a big ship.

Several of the kids and a big ship.

Aloha! Trumbles in Hawaii III - Dole Plantation

From: Dan Trumble
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 11:50 PM
Subject: Aloha! Trumbles in Hawaii III - Dole Plantation

On Thursday we visited the Dole Plantation. They have a lot of pineapple stuff there. They also have the World’s Largest Maze (at least according to the 2001 version of the Guinness Book of World Records). It has 1.7 miles of pathways and the object is to get to six different stations inside the maze. The record time is 8 minutes (see picture of record times below). I think I did the best of all of the people in our group by finding 5 of the stations but it took me more than 45 minutes. Some people had gotten a map and Jim was able to show me the sixth station. We wanted to leave but took a while to find Kimberly and Elizabeth so by the time we got out it was something like 52 or 53 minutes from when we’d started. It was HARD (and pretty hot too).

Pineapple questions you've always wondered about...

Clockwise from upper left:
Elizabeth & Jim…Kimberly…Caleb…Josiah…Elizabeth & Kimberly…Elizabeth & Kimberly…Josiah & Will

More pineapple information.

Beth & Stephen inside the maze.

Amy & Josiah in the maze…

Elizabeth and Kimberly in the maze...

Dan in the maze...

Maze times.

“Mahalo” means “Thank You”

Aloha! Trumbles in Hawaii II

From: Dan Trumble
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:54 PM
Subject: Aloha! Trumbles in Hawaii II

On Tuesday we visited Moanalua Gardens, a very pretty park with many large, very cool trees. This park also has a monkeypod tree that is used in a Hitachi commercial in Japan and Japanese tourists come to get their picture taken with the tree. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Jun/27/bz/bz01p.html

On Monday we visited Chinatown (who knew there was such a think in Hawaii?!?). While there we visited a fish/meat market. There were some fairly large gray fish in a shallow bit of water that were still alive and would sometimes squirm around (I have a little movie…if you’d like to see it, let me know). There were vegetables and many other things including various parts of a pig that I don’t usually see in the grocery stores I frequent (unless it’s in sausage) like a pig head and pig blood…yuck!

We ate at a Zippy’s which is a Hawaiian restaurant chain. I had chili moco (chili, rice, hunks of hamburger patty, and eggs). It wasn’t bad.

Limousines for the Japanese tourists who were visiting the famous tree from the commercial.

The famous tree.

Kids jumping in front of the famous tree.

A palm tree.

Another cool tree.

Some kids and some koi fish.

Chinatown. Will & Elizabeth.

Clockwise from upper left. Squid --- Will with pig blood and goat meat --- Pig head --- Pig liver, stomach, and bone --- My sister, Amy, and a large avocado.

Steve, Will, and Jim with chickens hanging in the background.

Zippy's

Chili Moco from Zippy’s!

Aloha! Trumbles in Hawaii I

From: Dan Trumble
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 4:04 PM
Subject: Aloha! Trumbles in Hawaii I

Aloha! The Trumbles are in Hawaii visiting my sister’s family. Major Andy Leong, my brother-in-law is stationed at Hickam Air Force Base on Oahu and we’re staying with him, my sister Amy, and their three children Kimberly (9), Caleb (6), and Josiah (4). We arrived on Thursday, January 11th after about an 8 hour flight from Dallas which followed an early morning flight from Colorado Springs. This was the first time any of the kids remember being on an airplane and they did really well.

On Friday Andy had to go to work but the rest of us walked around a bit on the base. We walked along the channel that boats use to move between Pearl Harbor and the ocean. We didn’t see any big boats moving while we walked but later in the day we saw a big ship and a sub in the distance. We had a picnic lunch at the park area by Hickam Beach and spent some time playing on the beach. I got sunburned.

On Saturday all of us, including Andy, drove out to Bellows Beach and spent some time. Many of us slept some on the way back from the beach…very tired!

Note the slight difference in temperature between Hawaii and Colorado on Saturday night. It warmed up some in Colorado Springs by the point where the below reading was taken. According to the local Colorado Springs newspaper, The Gazette (http://www.gazette.com/) it was only 4 degrees at noon Saturday (that’s about -16 C).

This weather data is from http://www.wunderground.com/