National Naval Aviation Museum

Well we spent all of Tuesday driving from Tybee Island to Pensacola Florida.  It was a very long drive,  the girls watched several DVD's, I took 3 separate naps and our fearless leader Doug, drove us safely to our destination (about 11 hours). Crossing into the Central Time Zone threw us off a bit, but we adjusted. We did stop at Waffle House for dinner, and enjoyed grits and smothered, covered, chopped, and chunked hash browns.

 

We spent the night in a Wal-Mart ParkinglLot that was about 5 minutes from the museum, which enabled up to make it to the museum when it opened at 9am.  Doug was in Aviation Geek Heaven.  It was an awesome museum.  We went on three separate tours, and saw a lot of historical airplanes.  It was really cool to see the before photos of some of the planes, many of which they pulled out of the water to restore.  We had lunch at the Cubi Café in the museum, which was very cool.  It is decorated with real plaques that were displayed in the officers club in the Philippians.  We spent about six hours at the museum, and saw most of it.  My back was hurting and the girls had lost interest so we left.  Doug could have stayed until it closed.

 

 

After we left the museum we went to the Pensacola Light House Museum. It was really cool, we wanted to stay longer but it was beginning to downpour so after a few photos we left for our four hour drive to New Orleans.