Gramps and my most precious

Hey Stacy where did you go? we miss you are you still breathing?



let us know. while I have the Blog open I will tell you all about our

trip to Norfolk Va. to spend a day with Levi and the Scotts on the ship

Harry S. Trueman or HST a nucular powered Aircraft carrier .(BIG)

WOW BIG!!!!!! it is just about the size of all our property here on

Jackson 1096 feet long and 271 feet wide, thats about 10 acres with a

crew of 5000 and we had more than 4000 guests aboard for the day

we went out in the ocean at 7:30 A.M. and returned at about 9:ooP.M.

they fed us breakfast, lunch ,and supper. food available all day on the

hanger deck. also port-a-potties. they had bleachers set up on the

flight deck for the air show. we had a fly over of four fighters, two

AWACKS planes, a helicopter landed they tried the catapults a few

times . then the four fighters landed at 180 miles per hour and stopped

right in front of us AGAIN WOW. then the four fighters were catapulted

off right in front of us. they had a cruiser , and a destroyer , and another

boat that launched hovercraft boats three of them.and came right up to

us. then they had asupersonic fighter fly by and break the sound

barrier and when that happens (suprise to me , you can see the shock

waves) it looks like a flash of lightning all around the plane for a

second or a split second then BOOOOM it had four booms along the length

of the ship then , right straight up till out of sight that happened

three times and was to me worth the trip out there just to experience that.



Well then Levi was our guide and did a fine job of showing us his home

in the Navy he is now out to sea for about 10 days they are getting ready

to go out for a prolonged time, maybe 8 months. He met us at the airport

showed gramma and me around norfolk, took us into the base,showed

us all around the ship, arranged for our Motel , stayed with us for Sat.

nite and took us to the airport on Sunday morning, what a guy!!!!



It was a fast trip but lots of new experiences, O Yeah almost forgot

Sally arranged our Flights thru " Cheap seats " and they had'nt gotten

seat arrangements for us , so when we got to Detroit they sais we will

assign seats at check in so I went up to the counter she said I'm just

getting started I'll call you. So I said will you call us by name yep

so when she did I got our boarding passes and did'nt pay attention to

where we were seated, then will all who are in FIRST CLASS and those

needing extra time or assistance board now., we went over near the

gate and stood there , she motioned for me to come up to the desk,

and I said ARE WE IN FIRST CLASS? she shook her head yes, I blew

her a KISS and we went aboard she said ENJOY! we did. First time

we ever flew in FIRST CLASS ------ IT's NICE.



Gramps and my beautiful traveling partner