Spent the weekend in Corpus Christi, TX and spent half a day aboard the USS Lexington. What a treat. Here are a few pics for those (few) who are interested.

Sun on the water.



The Blue Ghost herself.



Great collection of planes.





"Bull" Halsey sat here on a number of occasions. It was grand!



The Tower.



What a great experience. It gave me more than a little taste of the second most famous Aircraft Carrier is US history (behind the USS Enterprise).

A real treat!

Hey Val

Nice weekend. Any chance you hooked up with a female naval aviator and navigated your vessel in her cockpit? You could pass for Tom Cruise in TopGun. Come on... fess up.

My weekend was amusing. A friend invited me to South Beach, so I went with her, anticipating the usual blend of latina lovelies to be all around the clubs and beaches. What I didn't realize is that Memorial Day weekend in SoBe has turned into the annual gangsta hiphop blowout featuring PDaddy and BustaRyhmes in concert.

The place was wall to wall 'bitches'. A more eclectic blend of African American women wearing next to nothing I have NEVER seen.

Another first for me? You never seen so many pimped out rides in your life. I saw so many Cadillac Escalades with 48" rims and even gullwing doors, lining the streets. The brothers were stylin up da beach like I've never seen in my life.

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Usually I joke that I take my passport to enter Miami, but never for this. Forget going to another country, this was like being on another planet!

In reality, I had a blast on the beach with my sistas of color, joking and kidding around. My latina friend wasn't too happy that I played football with 'the crew' for an hour, but she got over it.

DG

On second thought Val, you look more like 'Goose' than Maverick.
Deeg

Yeh, sadly, Goose is probably more accurate

Sounds like you had fun though. That's what counts. You gonna be back in Brazil in July?

Val