Batteries would help!

It was cold, but not too cold last Sunday as we took a walk down to the harbour to have a look at the USS JFK. A 1,050 feet long aircraft carrier which was making it's last visit to Boston before being decommissioned. "Big John" as it's affectionately known was open to the public for the weekend, and people started queuing at about 3 am Saturday morning for the one hour guided tour. Apparently the queue was almost 2 miles long when they started turning people away. We didn't bother to join the queue, although we would have liked to have had a look around. Standing in the cold for a couple of hours before getting near the ship just wasn't that appealing. We walked down the side with others in an attempt to get a closer look but obviously security was tighter than spandex. We got as close as we could, took the camera out to take a picture only to find the batteries were flat. Nice. I usually always have spare batteries with me, but not this time. Lucky we didn't join the queue and discover this after hours stood waiting in the cold. The USS Kennedy drew around 50,000 visitors over the weekend and set sail to Florida later in the week were it will sit and grow old along with all the other retired Americans.

Our summer west coast tour is all booked, we fly to Seattle on the 18th June taking in San Francisco, Monterey, Los Angeles, Palm Springs (Joshua Tree National Park) and finally Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon before returning to Boston for the 4th July. It's back to good old Blighty then on the 5th via Dublin to swap planes. Better make sure I take plenty of batteries and the charger for this trip.

So sorry no picture at the top of the USS JFK for the blog as I had planned, a nice sunset to warm us up from our window instead.

Cheers.