A review of sorts of Hawaii: February 13, 2016; back in Honolulu

Back in Honolulu after a week visiting three other islands on the cruise. So glad to be back in Honolulu, though after walking around Waikiki tonight, it occurs to me that I'm over Waikiki.

It amazed me that Hawaii, outside of Honolulu, is very rural. The highways on Maui, for instance, and around Hilo on the island of Hawaii (aka the Big Island) have very few streetlights, to allow darkness for the observatories.

Pics from Kauai, click to enlarge:

Waimea Canyon, Kauai, Hawaii. Supposedly called the "Grand Canyon of the Pacific,"
the earth is red from iron oxide in the earth but unlike the Grand Canyon, it's really lush
with vegetation. There's a waterfall in one portion of it, the picture of which I didn't include here. 

The Na Pali coast of Kauai on the north side of the island. View from the ocean.
This is supposedly the other side of the above Canyon.

More after the jump.

the cost of paradise

It is apparently really expensive in Hawaii. I made a trip to the Kmart. Check out these prices.

That is $6.59 for white bread! This isn't Whole Foods or anything,
this is Kmart. 

Canada's national shame

They didn't teach this in school....

I went to Pearl Harbor today, and there's an exhibit about World War II in the Pacific. When Japan surrendered, the representatives of the allies and Japan signed the terms of surrender on the USS Missouri, which is set up as an exhibit and memorial at Pearl Harbor. 

After the USA, the order of the allies signing were, first, China, then the United Kingdom, the USSR, Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands and then New Zealand.

The document (a replica?) is on display at the USS Missouri.  Here's a photo of the second page where the allies actually signed, (click to enlarge):

Did you catch the screw up?

I include the photo to prove I'm not making this up.

You'll see that the line where Canada is supposed to sign is blank. Then, the line underneath with a signature, is supposed to be France, but instead, the Canadian representative has signed, and the typed text indicating it's where France was supposed to sign has been crossed out, and a handwritten correction has been made to it to show it's the representative of Canada the signed.

As a result, all the other lines below have been hand corrected, and a line for New Zealand had to be inserted by hand. 

It looks like the Canadian representative signed on the wrong line. What the hell happened? Was the Canadian representative not paying attention, or was he distracted? He couldn't have paid attention for a few minutes (the whole signing, apparently, took about 23 minutes) to make sure he signed on the right line? No one stopped him when he started?  What went wrong???