We visited Pearl Harbour on a 7 hr organised tour - very moving in places especially "The Arizona" memorial so many men lost, a great place to get the full perspective of what actually happenend on 7 Dec 1941 - no sign of Ben or Josh though! But we did meet 2 surviours of that fateful day and got autographs and a photo opportunity too. Really nice chaps. We had a tour of "Mighty Mo" - USS Missouri - again great historical content and everything fell into place for the children regarding WWII after visiting all the memorials in Washington a couple of weeks before.
We had a brief tour of the city and gathered alot of information from the very comical tour guide/bus driver including Obama's first house and school also explained the demise of Captain Cook the guy could of had his own TV show - a really funny man! All in all a lovely place to visit but so far away from the UK - we checked out of our hotel and boarded the first of 2 flights to New Zealand and brief touch down in Sydney - 16 hrs later we finally arrived in Auckland bed at last!