"Arise and Shine.......YOU are in Blue Angels' Country"

Shine??? Naw!.....I am a slow starter in the morning. It was a beautiful morning and coffee on "our" balcony overlooking the water was GREAT!

Yesterday we learned that (when in town between air shows) the Blue Angels run practice flights at 8:30am on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. TODAY is Wednesday. The museum sets up a special spectator area for the "show". Tom opted to go.....and, it was a good decision. I opted to stay at the Lodge and watch the Blue Angels over the water while attending to our clothes bobbing around at the laundromat. We BOTH saw some pretty incredible maneuvers....but his vantage was better as they "played" to that audience. Anyway you cut it, we BOTH were royally entertained AND we have clean underwear! Could you do better????

Once the clothes were folded and put away, we headed back to the Museum (like less than 1/4 mile from the Navy Lodge). Caught the noon IMAX showing of "Hurricane on the Bayou". WOW! We have been to LOTS of IMAX productions....but THIS one was perfectly timed as we are about 2 days out of New Orleans. It is produced by the Weather Channel. An outstanding presentation of the wetlands/bayou and New Orleans before-and-after Katrina. Really moving.

So, we left there and stopped for lunch at the CUBI 1 cafe/bar. Very interesting venue; very mediocre food. Every inch of wall space is covered with plaques of the many, many air squadrons that frequented the place in Subic Bay (before the volcano closed things down). Each squadron has their own icon....some serious, but generally humorous and generally it lists the squadron members (great nicknames) and years covered. Tom had been there....but not with an air squadron.

We launched a search for civilian wifi....it somehow involved discovery/stop at a bigger Navy Exchange located off the Air Station....but no wifi. En route to a Barnes and Noble (via "Naggy/Nellie") we happened on a Panera....so we finished up yesterday's blog there.

Having successfully plowed through EVERY inhabitant of Pensacola as they commuted home from work....we found our way back to the Navy Lodge. It was about time for sunset. We decided to take photos and walked toward the beach....but, as I looked up the lighthouse was silhouetted against the setting sun. Now THERE was a photo op! We took many photos as we walked closer IN SPITE OF BEING EATEN ALIVE BY BLACK FLIES! (They just sit on you and chew....awful!) When we got back, Tom loaded the pix into the computer. His were better than mine....but you will have to take my word for it as something went afoul and all of his vanished. Unfortunately he had cleared his camera...so you have to look at mine. However, minutes later, I looked out beyond the balcony to see a glorious pink/blue show in the sky with a glowing white moon! He captured this, and, we hope to share it with all of you when we find a wifi to get this blog on its way.