Harry S. Truman - Aircraft Carrier

A couple weekends ago Rachel and I got the privilege to go out to sea on the aircraft carrier the Harry S. Truman.  The ship had just returned form a 9 month deployment and was hosting a "friends and family day".  This is a rare occurrence, only happening every few years.  This being one of the carriers that Rachel works on in her job, we were able to get tickets to attend.

On the flight deck.

Rachel in front of the Island and Bridge of the carrier.  The only place we couldn't go to.

Here you can see the catapult, which launches the planes.

Airshow where the planes demonstrated landing on the carrier.

Here is a video of a jet landing on the carrier.

Video of a plane taking off.

This is a video of a jet going super sonic.  You can see where he breaks the sound barrier.

The chance to go on a carrier and going out to see was an amazing opportunity.  But being able to see the planes, these supersonic jet planes land on this carrier, not thirty feet away from you, that was amazing.

Tough Mudder

So over Father's Day, Rachel and I did our first Tough Mudder!  This is a 10.1 mile obstacle course.  So there were about 20 obstacles along the way, with about half mile to a mile runs in between.  It was lots of fun, and was certainly worth doing.  The very first obstacle was to crawl through a shallow mud pit under barbed wire.  So the theme came out fairly early.  Throughout the race I'd say we had to jump in and crawl through at least 4 different mud pits.  Needless to say, the even lives up to its name.  Here are some pictures.

Arctic Enema, basically a dive into a water bath.

Arctic Enema, by definition 0 degrees Celsius.

 

 

This one was the infamous electrocution at the end of the tough mudder.

That is a grimace.. not a smile.  For the record.

Rachel made sure to be careful with her recently broken arm.   Or something.

At the end, our whole group made it.

Tough Mudder was great, and everyone shoudl do it!  If you guys ever want to put together a family oriented group let me know!

Been a while

Figured I would actually post something here again in case people missed me!

Liberty Bell!

 Philadelphia

 Rachel before the Rock'n'Roll Run in DC

 What I was doing while she was running

 We were on a hike, and Rachel wanted a picture on the state line

 The cherry blossoms.  We actually made it on a day that wasn't too crazy.

Sara and Elvis, was a good day for a hike.