D.C. What a time I had. I saw lots of things that I thought I would never see. One of them being the inside of the White House!! We'll get to that later.

First of all let me just say that American West's pilot's are a bunch of sissys. The "thunderstorm" in Vegas scared our pilot so we went from holding pattern, to landing at another airport to refule, then back to Vegas to sit and wait for a gate to open up. Long story short I missed my flight and took the same one the next night. I killed a day in Vegas no biggy. Walked up and down the strip.

Got to Maryland, and I really don't feel like typing what I did. I'll just post some pictures and they will tell the story.

The Capital. This was the first day in D.C.

Arlington National Cemetary. It was very hot this day.

Here is a marine that "guards" the Tomb of the Unknowns. I bet he's hotter than me.

The White House. I didn't go inside yet.

This is the Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy's office. These are his challenge coins. He has a bunch.

Me sitting in the Chief of Naval Personel's desk. He is a Vice Admiral by the way.

Look at me, I'm in the press room at the White House.

Me outside the entrance to the West Wing.

There are more. Email me if you want a picture CD with all of them. It was a fun fun time. I also made a lot of contacts in D.C. Hopfully I can get stationed closer to home. Anyways that's all for now.

So this is my first "blog". I used to be on livejournal.com, but I descided to change. Here I will mostly post pictures of stuff I do while stuck in the navy. Let me just say this about the navy: I honestly don't like it. I am sure I would of loved old navy, but the navy is changing towards the worse. I won't go into detail because most of it is just confusing. So let's just end that subject right here.

I haven't really traveled yet. I went to bootcamp in Great Lakes, IL, 'A' School in Pensacola, FL, and now I'm in Whidbey Island, WA. Bootcamp was uneventful. Pensacola was long and I went through hurrican Ivan. That was an experience. Now I can say that I've been through a hurricane. Now I'm in Washington. I've been to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I have been twice. Just went up to "party" with buddies of mine. Fun, but expensive. I've also been to Boise, Idaho. One of my best "navy" friends lives there. I'll probably go there for Thanksgiving since Oklahoma is so far away and airline tickets are so expensive. His family is really nice. Other than that I haven't gone anywhere with my squadron. I might go to San Diego here in month or so. But again, they might leave me back. Good news is that our deployment is probably pushed back to winter. So that means I won't be in the Gulf during the summer. Thank god for that. It gets to around 120 degrees or so up on that flight deck in the Gulf. So really it's been quiet here on the island. I'll post some pictures of the different views of Washington.

Here is my beautiful car. I love it so much.

Here is my awesome computer. I love it also.

This is a cave that me, Mikey, and Roland found near Deception's Pass. Pretty cool huh?

Here is Deception's Pass bridge from afar. This is what connects Whidbey Island to the "mainland".

Cool picture of the water and trees and rocks.

From atop Mount Erie.

Well I have way more pictures, but they are just different variations of these. I'll post more as I do more stuff. I'm going camping this weekend at Jim Creek with my squadron. It should be fun. Well much love.