Planes, Tanks, and Ammo...Oh My!

The "Heritage Flight": planes of past and present.




The "Heritage Flight" again.




The Princess Elizabeth.




Plane coming in for a landing.




A Vietnam-era tank.




The shiny Pacific Prowler. Beautiful!




Can you imagine being this gunner? He had to sit right in front of the plane. Talk about a sitting duck!




Bombs (dummies, of course) in the Pacific Prowler.




Dave (in his flight suit) and the boys in the bomb area of the plane.




Looking into the area where the guys sit on the plane.



A gun on the side of the Pacific Prowler.



Dave answering the boys' questions. :)

The Blue Angels!

Doing their tricks...








I never thought I'd say exahaust from planes was beautiful before...




See how close they get to each other?




Some of these guys are upside down!

Darryl Worley

Nice stage, right? ;)

Good News!

I think probably most everyone knows this, but for any who don't (I am sorry! I can't remember my name most days, ha!), baby #5 is on the way, due sometime mid-October! :D

I found a great midwife who delivers at one of the local hospitals, and am going to my first appointment this Friday. I am very anxious to hear a heartbeat and see the baby. Yes! They are doing an ultrasound the first appointment to date the pregnancy.

God is GOOD!

Our cruise!

Dave and I decided to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary a bit early (it will be Dec. 2009) by taking a cruise. Our reasoning was that we'll just have moved to a new duty station and Dave will be in the midst of training and we need some time for us. My aunt got us a great deal on a 10-night cruise to the eastern Carribean, so we asked Dave's stepmom if she would be willing to help us out by watching the kids. She graciously accepted, and we left on January 1st and returned on January 12th. We drove all the way to Ft. Lauderdale (about 10 hours) to Port Everglades to get on the cruise ship. It was a grand time! We visited St. Thomas, St. Kitts, Barbados, St. Lucia, and St. Maarten, but were able to also sneak in a trip to St. John while in St. Thomas. We met a couple on the cruise and went on tours with them the whole time, becoming great friends. Cruises are a great way to get a taste of many different places in one trip.


Here are some views inside the ship:



The grand foyer.


The ceiling in the grand foyer.


Our teeny tiny room.

St. Thomas and St. John

We loved St. Thomas and St. John! It was the most "Americanized" of all the places we visited, because they are part of the U.S. Virgin Islands. St. Thomas is also known as a shopping mecca in the Caribbean, so it was bustling place! We took a boat ride to quieter St. John and went on a nature hike there, complete with snorkeling if we desired.







An imposing view of our ship in St. Thomas.


Our ship docked in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.







Views of St. Thomas from the top of the Skyride.



A cactus people had scarred up with grafitti.



To "lime" in the islands means to relax and chill out.




The Skyride!



The view from the top of the Skyride looking down into St. Thomas.



Medusa vines on St. John.



St. John



A termite nest seen our our nature hike on St. John.



A coconut on Honeymoon Beach on St. John.



Dave snorkeling on St. John. Doesn't it look like pool water?






Honeymoon Beach.



Sugarcane factory ruins on St. Thomas.