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1964: after high school life begins. Asked to consider not returning to OSU after the first year. 1966 drafted; grunt, door gunner, HU1 pilot. Out in Dec '70. 1972 married, joined fire dept and bought first house over a 6 month span. 1980 moved family (which now consisted of wife Teri, daughter Amy and son Ryan) to CO. 1990 moved all to bush Alaska to work for the dark side (the FAA). Started Blog to keep family and friends up on our whereabouts. Retired in March 2010. In Feb 2012 sold house in Alaska. By May had bought in Redmond and completed the move. Still nesting in Redmond and loving it!

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Grand Kid Weekend

Just finished breakfast and goodby to the Soden's.  It was a fun weekend with the grandkids and their support team.

Sunday we went to the Apollo Power station to see the manatees.

 Interesting twin vortices in the exhaust.



There were lots of them hanging out in the warm water.

There were a few other species enjoying the warm water as well.

Rather large Tarpon, by any standard.  Some around 5'.

After that we went to the Aquarium in Tampa.
There were rays and sharks inside to touch but not this big.

Inside there were birds too!
I had to be extra sneaky to get this close to this one.  Not really, he was quite friendly.

On the way back we noticed that Alaska isn't the only place where they build bridges to nowhere.

I think they'll end up somewhere just not right now.

Yesterday we went to the beach.
Molly and Spencer tried to reposition the water.  One bucket at a time.
One of the locals was beach combing as well.

The water was cold but the air was perfect.  We finally loaded up the mermaids and sharks and headed back to the trailer for dinner and SMORES, yeah!

Now we are back to just hanging out and boring stuff like laundry and reading.  We can only handle just so much fun.

Enjoy!
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