Off to the high seas

So it was a cold and blustery day and there I was… Or maybe it was all part of training.  Either way, I ended up in the middle of the bay making radio calls to the IX-514 getting cleared to land. I had a ship ops flight today and was able to bring the camera…

Happy Birthday Marines

Yut, yut!  So the Marine Corps’ birthday isn’t until November 10 but we celebrated it early this year.  We had our birthday ball on Saturday and it was a great time!

Attack of the killer jellyfish

Well maybe “killer jellyfish” is a bit of an exaggeration considering they were already dead but if they had been alive… So Mere and I headed down to the beach for the fourth consecutive weekend (I wonder what our parents have been doing in the 40 degree Minnesota weather) and there were tons of these…

A weekend on the Blackwater

To make a short story long… We had a tent, a great tent in fact, but one of the seams blew out on it so it stopped being great in a hurry.  Sent the tent back to Mountain Hardwear and they sent us a newer and even better tent (hooray!).  Ever since the replacement found…