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2010-10-10: Boating, Fleet Week and the Blue Angels!
Aunty Claire and
her boyfriend/fiance, John, invited Mommy, Daddy and Anthony to go on their
boat on San Francisco bay for the second day of Fleet Week festivities. Fleet
Week is a parade of boats followed by lots of air shows in celebration of
Navy ships coming in to the bay to stay for the week before shipping back
out. Here's the web
site. We didn't go to day one to see the parade of ships, but went on
this boat trip for day two. Both days have air shows that go for 4 hours
with the last hour being the Blue
Angels.
They were REALLY LOUD and Anthony got a little scared, but did very well
and talked about seeing the jets for the rest of the week. He did get a little
sea sick, but didn't puke. Its been soooo long since Daddy was on a boat
(having sold his old one), so this trip was very much appreciated. Other
people were on the boat and Anthony was the cutie pie star...of course. We
left from Pier 39 at Fisherman's Wharf went out under the Bay Bridge, around
Treasure Island, then around Alkatraz where we anchored to watch the air
show and have dinner (the food people brought was awesome). We all had a
great time.
2010-10-10: Getting
ready to go.
2010-10-10: While
waiting we ran on to the pier and rode the merrygoround. That's Aunty Claire,
Anthony and Mommy.
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are the sea lions lying all over the docks at the end of Pier 39 as seen
from the docks.
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is the boat we were on. Very nice ride. There's a giant screen tv and some
very compfy recliners in the main cab. I didn't take any pictures of the
inside. We had the SF Giants game on while tooling around.
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towards the Bay Bridge.....
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under it.
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can see the construction of the new Bay Bridge...to be finished god knows
when.
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towards Alkatraz
2010-10-10: That's
the Golden Gate Bridge off in the distance with some fog theatening to cover
one of the towers.
2010-10-10: Mommy
and Aunty Claire on the bow after we anchored.
You can see the smoke trails
of the biplanes and stunt planes that were performing as we motored around
the bay.
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and John. Anthony is reacting to the planes in the sky.
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finished as a heart with an arrow through it.
2010-10-10: FAT
ALBERT!!! This is the crew and maintenance plane for the Blue Angels (I think
it's a C10). It starts off the Blue Angels show by showing the crowd what
a C10 can do, which is pretty awesome.
2010-10-10: Fuzzy
close up of Fat Albert.
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The Blue Angels always make their grand entry from the east and go straight
at the crowd that is watching on shore and listening to the narator. This
camera sucks at taking video.
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This is just a few seconds of the jets making a turn before I got frustrated
with video mode.
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2010-10-10: Anthony
was mesmerized with the air show and the jets.
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2010-10-10: We
anchored very near Alkatraz.
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