Saturday, November 26, 2011

All hear this - mess is being served on the quarter deck!

High light of today was a visit to CV-2, the USS Lexington, the very first training aircraft carrier.  It is an Essex class WWII aircraft carrier. it served from 1943 - 1947 then again from 1955 to 1991.



Many aircraft were on board, from WWII to an F-18.  The hanger deck was full of displays and aircraft too.







this F-14 was on loan from Pensacola.  We went to a movie on the hanger deck about the fighter pilots of the Navy.  So all told it was a great site seeing day.

For lunch we went to Joe's Crab Shack and split a KJ steamer.  The meal was very good - mussels, scallops and king crabs with corn and potatoes.  We had desert too.  I had a decadent chocolate cake and Bonnie had Turtle Sundae, both larger than either of us could eat. 

On the way back we ran into some light rain.  Not bad but enough it had Bonnie worried.  A quick stop at the commissary and we were back at the trailer. 

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