A Day at Sea Wolf Park

I woke up this morning with the blinds in the bedroom slapping the window. The wind was blowing outside and we got a gust in the window every once in a while that blew the blinds back and forth.
I was not sure what time it was so I made the command decision to pull myself out of bed and head to the kitchen for coffee. I heard a noise in the bathroom and realized that Sherri was already up. We met in the kitchen and poured our coffee.
After a moment of silence, which we have every morning before we talk to each other, I brought up the question about Sea Wolf Park. I wanted to know if she was still on board for going. Sherri said we have to go because we had already told Kris that we were. So that settled that.
We had class and then ate some lunch. We left about 1:30 and headed over to Pelican Island. I found out that this was not a State Park so my pass was not going to get me in free...oh drat!
It was not much to enter so we parked and went on in to the park. Just like most parks the first place you enter is the souvenir shop. You know that Kris immediately found something for us to buy him. OK this is his Birthday month so we gave in.
The first exhibit that we went in was the submarine. There is no way that I could have been a submariner.  I would have to lose about 50 lbs before I could get in the bunk to sleep. There was no place in the entire ship that had room to stretch your arms straight out! It took special guys to man these ships.

Next we went on board the Distroyer Escourt and climed up and down the ladders. Sherri and I got our workout for the week. Kris had a ball and learned a lot about the navy. He had already been on the USS Texas so he was starting to see what it was all about. He ask me if I was in that war and I told him I was old but not quite that old. Seems like every generation has their war and that is a shame. I hope his generation finds a way not to have one...

Somewhere in Time