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Mr. and Mrs. Wardeska and Mr. and Mrs. Ruth are greeted at Honolulu International Airport.
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Mr. and Mrs. Wardeska are pictured next to the anchor of the U.S.S. Arizona in Pearl Harbor.
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The U.S.S. Arizona Memorial as pictured from the launch just before arrival.
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The Arizona Memorial.
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The American flag flies atop the Memorial.
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The U.S.S. Arizona on the bottom of Pearl Harbor.
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A view of Waikiki Beach on O'ahu.
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A conch shell is blown like a trumpet.
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The Wardeska's experience their first luau.
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Native drummers at work.
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Mr. and Mrs. Wardeska could not resist watching the Independence Day Parade in Waikiki since it went right in front of their hotel.
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The Royal Hawaiian Band is performing here. The parade also featured the service bands.
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The sunsets off the coast of the big island. This is the view from the Wardeska's hotel in Wailea on the big island of Hawaii.
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The Wardeska's visited the active volcano of Kilauea. The crater is in the background.
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Mrs. Wardeska stands atop one of the lava flows which covered the highway during the eruptions of the late 1980's.
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The sunsets off the island of Maui as the Wardeska's enjoy a dinner cruise.
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The Wardeska's rose at 2:30 AM in order to make it to the top of Haleakala to watch the sunrise at over 10,000 feet.
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The sunrises over Haleakala.
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The sun shines over the clouds at Haleakala.
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The craters on Haleakala seem to be the landscape of another planet.
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Mrs. Wardeska takes time for one last stroll in the ocean before returning to Ohio.
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