USS Anchorage

So there's a new Navy warship called the USS Anchorage.  It's a Marine support vessel...or something...  Oh, it's an amphibious transport dock, to be more specific.  (I totally just looked it up.)
Anyway, it's currently docked in Anchorage!  It is being commissioned this weekend.

This is the ship as it passed by Homer.  Picture "borrowed" from here..

The past two days they have had free public tours of the ship.  We had every intention of going on the tour.  Yesterday the plan was to meet Luke at the Sears mall (which is right across the highway from his work and one of two locations the tours were starting from) but when I got there the line (which was outside in the rain) was crazy long, and there weren't any parking spaces.  So I went to the other tour bus meeting location (Northway Mall) and the line there was also pretty long...but at least it was inside, and there were a few parking spaces still available.  After talking it over with Luke on the phone, we decided to try today instead, and we even went "early"...but the line at Northway Mall was twice as long as yesterday.  No thanks!  (We didn't even try the other location--which we heard last night would be moved from the Sears Mall to the Sullivan Arena due to the high demand/parking problems..)

We got frozen yogurt and went to Costco instead.  (And one would think that with that many people at the Northway Mall waiting to go on a tour that the Costco down the street would be less busy.  HA!  Fat chance!)

So now we are at plan C--we'll be taking the virtual tour instead...with my feet propped up!

(You can take the virtual tour too.  It's on this website.)

In other news, only 6 weeks until baby Chewie is due to make his appearance.  I don't mind him coming a bit early, but I've already told him its rude to be too late.  We will see though.  From what I've been told, it seems that most silly babies have their own agendas.  I don't expect him to be any different.

We will just have to wait and see!