Helicopter Rides

 

Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas

Today's Date: 4-17-2022

We got the day started with a full walk of Memorial Park at a moderate pace. It was nice out and the folks friendly. Then back to the Castle for some computer time and a shower. Right after that a migraine of lesser severity hit

so everything came to a halt for a little over an hour. It cleared away just in time for lunch.

Off to Aransas Pass Whataburger for lunch. Lunch was the usual decent but not special. Whataburger food has really gone down in the last couple of years. But when we left Whataburger we saw that the first of the blooming plants had come in at Walmart.

Naturally we had to stop and photograph them to ad to our art reference files. We got 24 new blooming plant photos for our files. Here are three of them.

They were all very fresh so we got some good references for future art efforts.

Back home we put in a couple of hours on the latest painting and made some nice progress.

The fishing itch hit the OFM so we shut down the art effort and headed to the harbor to see if any fish were home year. Nope but we did get this nice catch with the camera.

The Easter event that spilled out all over the harbor area had helicopter rides for entertainment this year. We did not check the cost. They flew from near where we were fishing and made a nice loop over the beach area and back around the far end of the harbor where we were fishing. The rides lasted about five minutes and was active enough that we bet it was a fun ride. Did the OFM go for a ride? Nope he has hundreds of hours riding in helicopters from his fifteen months in Viet Nam as a combat infantryman.

We could hear the kids when they got out of the chopper after the ride. They were all screaming and excited and running around like crazy. It was nice to see them having so much fun.

Tomorrow starts the planning for the trip to Grandkid Land. We hope to have toooo much fun getting those plans made.