gramps and the fellow traveler

Hi there we are back from Norfolk , and what a DAY IT WAS , on

the GOOD SH .IP LOLLYPOP. cancel out the last word of the last sentance. It was the good ship HST HARRY S T RUEMAN Aircraft

carrier of the U.S. Navy and for which the honorable Levi Scott are

responsible to get going. He is in charge of getting all the stuff aboard

for such a monster ship as that is. 1096 feet long and 271 feet wide. It

takes quite a canoe paddle to get that thing going , I'll tell ya. We

saw everything that was'nt locked off, saw where levi,s office is, his

bunk room, his kitchen , exersize room flight deck , rode up and down

on the elevators they bring the planes up and down to the flight deck'

they served food all day, breakfast, lunch and supper. Good food.they

even had ice cream, cake ,and other deserts.

The Captain of the ship walked the Flight deck talked with people

had his picture taken with some, we had a VERY NICE AIR SHOW

they had a fly over by four fighters which later landed and were launched

by catapult, back into the wild blue, then these boys did several landings

withthe hook NOT down so they would come in at 180 miles per hr.

just touch the deck and kick in the afterburners and roar ROOAAR

off again . they had awacks planes fly over too, and one supersonic

fighter fly by and of great suprise to me you can see the shock wave

when

they hit the sonic barrier . it looks like a halo of lightning,AMAZING!!!!

they also had ship accompanying us that they can flood part of the

stern and launch hovercraft they sent four of them out the back and

later retrieved them.also there was a large helicopter accompanyin us

all day. and they had other ships along too, destroyer, cruiser, a sub

is normally too but I did'nt see any that Day. so you can see it was

QUITE A DAY for a little dutch boy from the Dutch Getto. Levi seems

to be enjoying himself. now if we could only get him to behave(joke)

We also had one more First--- We got to fly From Detroit to norfolk

First Class how bout that?

That is our report for now Gramps and Gramma T.B..O.G.I.G.