These pictures are in no particular order, and since Heather is probably burned out about telling this spring break tale, here I go...
Grammy Williamson n' Jensen
It was really fun to renew acquaintances with my cousins. Amanda was 11 years old last time I was up in mass, now she's got a cute little boy. We really liked Ray, he's a great guy!
Great Grammy and all of her great grandkids, and pretty much all smiling great grand kids, of corse you know we had to take 75,000 shots to get this one (because of my kids of course)
Aunt Sue aprehended Jensen while he was eating an earth mover.
Unca Dave
Heather and I agree that going on the mayflower II was on the top ten list of the cool things that we saw on the entire trip. They had actors onboard that acted as if they were Mayflower passengers and other parks personel to answer questions. You could ask as many questions as you wanted... and I did. I didnt like talking to the period actors because it was just awkward, but I lierally talked to another guy for about an hour and just fired question after question. It was SO much more interesting than I thought it would be. One cool thing that they said was that the Mayflower was origionally supposed to land around the mouth of the Hudson, but they got off track and landed in Plymouth, which was coincidentally the name of the port town that they origionally sailed from in England. They didnt name the place that they landed plymouth, It was actually named that six years earlier by land surveyers. Also the origional Mayflower was sold for scrap in the 1640s.
HELLO PILGRIM!
It was freezing. FREEZING!
We took the boys around the harbor, In the boys' opinion, the coolest things there were the floating docks.
Family picture in front of Scituate light. Almost everybody was "onboard."
Posers at Scituate Harbor.
This is what it looks like if you mix 3431 Miles, 14 states, 12 days, a toyota camry and 2 toddlers together
Uh... Jensen was supposed to be the navigator...but...he was pretty neglegent, so we bought a GPS.
Jensen wanted to go over the falls. He was pretty bummed. Good thing this was the last day of the trip or this might have ruined it for him.
The Sacred Grove. I loved it.
This picture is an eternal testament...to me being right and Heather wrong. I set the timer up and put the camera down probably 100 ft away, and down 10 steps. Heather said that there was "NO WAY" I was going to make it in time. Hmmm. Whos that tall drink o' water then?
The USS Lionfish, a WWII sub. You can get a hint of an idea of how cramped the living conditions were. The doors "hatches"are too small even for Luke to walk through.
Jensen and I manned the gun on the deck of the lionfish. It troubled me when I found out that Jensen had brought live amunition for it!
This is the bridge of the USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. a destroyer that was built and fought during WWII. It also fought in Korea and Vietnam. It is most famous for being the ship that boarded an inspection party of American sailors onto a Russian freighter at the height of tensions during the Cuban Missle Crisis blockade. The JPKJr was used in filming the movie "13 Days." One of the ship's caretakers let us onto the normally inaccessable bridge. He was the son of man who sailed on her. It was very interesting.
View of the "Big Mamie" which is the nickname of the USS Massachusets, not my wife, or my baby for that matter. The USS Massachusetts (BB59) served in both the Pacific and Atlantic theaters. It is one of the most decorated warships of all time. During it's first cruise (in the Atlantic,) it sunk a german controlled french battleship from over twelve miles away. It's main weapons are nine 16 inch guns that fire high explosive projectiles. The "bullets" are four feet tall, 16 inches wide, and are propelled by more than 150 lbs of gunpowder. The Massachusetts was involved in the bombardment of almost every beachhead that US Marines took in the Pacific theater including Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
4 tickets to the gun show!
(5 inch guns on Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.)
The boys had to close the hatch to stop flooding in the lower compartments.
Im gonna bunk with you BUDDY!!!
Luke for some reason was hamming it up. He walked aroud the ships for 4 hours.
Luke's Grandpa Kramer flew in a bunch of these when he was in the Army.
Lets see what this thing can do!
Jensen and his Cobra gunship
Luke and Big Mamie
In front of the 16 inchers
Heather and her obsession with anti-aircraft weaponry. I don't understand it!
The Stay Puffed Marshmallow Man
the view from 1250 ft...A quarter mile up...the 102 floor
Thats one ugly blimp!
Jensen was a good sport on the 86th floor observatory. It was SO windy
9/11 WTC site. A absolutely somber and sacred place.
Uptown Girl (from Liberty Island)
Out of four different people that we asked to take a picture of us with the Statue of Liberty, THIS was the best.
This is my "art" photo. Pretty good huh!
Lady Liberty saluting the excellence of the BYU cougars
A real New Yorker
Subway...im hungry
Majestic D.C. Temple
Luke spent 6 months worth of "allowance" on this mini snow globe from the national zoo. Jensen must have bought his souvenir with bailout money, since we don't pay him for the kind of "WORK" he does around the house.
This statue is dedicated to all Marines. It's pretty impressive. There is one extra hand holding up the flagpole. It represents the hand of God.
The tomb of the unknowns was one of my fovorite things we saw whie in DC. 24/7-365 soldiers have been guarding the remains of fallen unknown US soldiers since 1937.
"KNOWN BUT TO GOD"
@ Robert E. Lee's Mansion overlooking Arlington Nat'l Cemetary
3 old buddies back together again... Jensen, Austin, and of course The Spirit of St. Louis.
Jensen trying to "borrow" an aircraft from the Air and Space Museum
Mr. Jence goes to Washington (unfortunately a couple of days late since they passed the health care bill the day before)
That is Abraham Lincoln sittin' back there, so show some freakin' respect!
The fountain at the new WWII memorial with Washington Monument in back. They said that they fundraised to get money in order to build the memorial. It cost 200 mil to make, but the WWII vets actually raised 300 mil. The memorial had every major battle in every theater listed somewhere within it.
Im glad Matt was out of school when we took these b/c the kids were going "a little bit wild" on the President of West Virginia University's lawn.
There were also two homeless bums there on the Pres' lawn (Matthew Malone above; Austin Kramer bottom)
The science guys
This was Luke threatening us that he was about to go Huck Finn on us and ride the river outta here!
Stopped by Newel's place, no iPADs though.
This is a mean trucker we met in Jersey! J/k it is really me. Heather wishes I would stay like this always, and I would, but I have to maintain a professional appearance for med school.
Well,.......................that is it. I started this deal-o at 9:00. The time is 12:49. It took me a long time to come up with not funny jokes. Im tired now, so, hope you like dum.
