We’ve been at NAF El Centro for a few days now and have seen several folks who were here lasts year. This famcamp is a destination for a lot of military snowbirds and in fact, it’s busier now that it was all of last winter.
El Centro is the winter home of the Blue Angels, the Navy’s Flight Demonstration Squadron. They come here every year from their home base at NAS Pensacola, FL, put together and practice their show for the upcoming season and then in March, they put on a full-blown airshow here.
03/04/2015
On Monday we drove over to San Diego to see the King Tut exhibit at the San Diego Natural History Museum. I saw the original exhibit back in, I think 1980 and that was the real deal. Since the Egyptian government won’t allow any of the original artifacts to leave the country any longer, and for good reason, this exhibit was created. Even though the artifacts are not the original, the exhibit is still amazing.
On Tuesday, the 10th we welcomed Chuck and Sue Svendsen from Oakridge, OR to NAF El Centro. We were able to get them a parking space right next to us with 30 amp power, water and sewer.
NAF El Centro had their annual Open House and Air Show featuring the Blue Angels this past weekend. The festivities kicked off on Friday evening with the Entertainment and Food Festival. The entertainment was highlighted by the U. S. Navy Seals Parachute Team, the Leap Frogs. Not only do these guy jump out of a perfectly good airplane, they do some crazy maneuvers as well.
The highlight of the show was the Blue Angels and what a great show they put on! They are nothing short of amazing, doing things with their FA-18 Hornets that are unbelievable.
Yesterday we said goodbye to Chuck and Sue who are headed over to Yuma, AZ to visit friends and then up to southern Utah to see Bryce and Zion National Parks. Thanks for coming to visit us. We had a ball!
Barry & Joyce
