Saturday, March 22, 2008

USS Lexington part1

While Andrew was on spring break, Richard actually had a day off so we took advantage of this and went on a road trip to Corpus Christi, Tx. What a beautiful place. Of course, anything coastal to me is beautiful. We had several things

on out agenda, but only made it to one thing, the USS Lexington. The boys, and i do mean all 3 of them had a great time. It was a little chilly that day and we didn't take jackets, but we soldier-ed on, or should that be sailor-ed on and had a great day. On board, there were alot of mock-cockpits to try out. Andrew had to try everyone of them. It's amazing that grown men fit in these same cockpits because Andrew almost filled them up and he's just a kid. I think we may have sparked a new passion for him.
Here the guys are looking off the top deck out into the Gulf of Mexico. Except for the wind, it was a beautiful day, but i think i already said that. These steps that they are at the top of are blocked off so they didn't go any
where from here. But the restrooms were down on the third level, and of course with Aaron we had to go several times. It was too cute, i told him once that the steps were really steep and from then on he called them steppy-steps.
i don;t know if you can see this well enough to make it out, but this is Senator John McClains plane. it's here on the Lexington as well as some things that belonged to George Bush Sr. There was a really nice display dedicated to him.
Here's Andrew trying to walk against the wind going from one end of the flight-deck to the other.
That's all for part one...



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