Today we took a trip to see the USS Battleship in Mobile! This was a surprise for Thomas...he woke up thinking he was going to school and then we told him he wasn' t going to school he was going to the Battleship! He was soooo excited!!
SEE???? He was up & at'em at 6:30a.m. We left home about 7:00 a.m. and went to Gantt and got Dan-Dan & Pop and then headed to Andalusia to get Thomas a biscuit from Burger King and then we were off to the Battleship! We were worried about the weather because the prediction for today was thunderstorms. But we decided to just go ahead and take our chances and I am glad we did. We had a fairly pretty day while we were there and the temperature was perfect!
We got there around 10:00 a.m. and it was really foggy! Here we are walking to the ramp to go up into the ship.
Thomas is having a blast! This was just after we got on the ship...on the deck. This ship is HUGE and we had only just begun!
This was taken just after we had entered the ship starting our tour. Thomas was sitting in the doorway leading into another part of the ship. It would take me about a year to learn my way around the ship and not get lost! HA!
Here he was standing with one of the fake soldiers. He was not too sure of these soldiers that were standing at different places throughout the ship. HA!
Pop and Thomas were sitting up on the high part of the deck on the ship. I think Pop was pointing out to Thomas where the submarine was.
Thomas is all about turning something and I'm not quite sure what this was (I think it was where they shot their guns from) but they are all on the deck of the ship and he had to sit in about everyone of them!
Here we are at the museum. We checked that out before heading on to the submarine or the USS Drum. I didn't get any pictures of the submarine for some reason. I guess it was because it is sooooo cramped in there and I was getting a little claustrophobic and just wanted to get out of there! But, just a little something funny Thomas said while up on top of the submarine. There was a telescope you could look through, but you had to put twenty-five cents in there. Thomas asked me if I had twenty-five cents and I told him I didn't and he said "dadgum women" HA!! In the submarine there was a man that was a "submariner" as he called himself. He said we could ask him anything and he would try to answer. He told me he had lived on a sub for 51 days straight! Wow! He said it really wasn't that bad...that you really got to know the people you were with...I bet so!
The last things we did were go to the gift shop and to the snack bar. Thomas got him a sailor hat (among other things) and I thought he made a mighty cute little sailor! This would have been a perfect day if Tori had been with us! But she had school, which was unusual for a Friday but she had to go until 12:00 today. But....she said if she didn't have school she probably wouldn't go HA! But after we got home and she was looking at the video Steve made I think she would like to go back! She went when she was really little...like 2 or 3 and she really doesn't remember alot about it. So...maybe we will go back one day and she can go again. Oh...one more thing that Thomas thought was really cool was that we went throught the tunnel getting to the Battleship and leaving the ship...Thomas thought that was awesome! Even though Thomas had a day off from school, this was certainly a learning experience! He asked Pop and Dan-Dan a 1000 questions on the way home about the battleship and he is still asking questions! What a fun day!!
