National Museum of Aviation, Pensacola Florida

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Styx River resort Roberts Dale Alabama

           Today is going to be another wonderful one, great weather so we have a plan. Let's wander on down to the National Museum of Aviation in Pensacola Florida. Only 35 miles away. We were there 2 years ago and only scratched the surface of this amazing place to visit with only  a 4 hour visit. So we left here just before 9 am and got there in good time. This place has free admission and is really amazing,  if you get to this area you must visit. One day is not enough and even with a 2 day visit we have not seen everything.

         I took way to many pictures so will let you look at just a few. It is really a must do as far as we are concerned.

         So much to see on the main floor but the second floor has so much more, videos and displays we spent most of our time there this time.

       We had chosen to go to the Imx Theatre here, the video we wanted to watch was the one below. Yes it cost $8.25 each but with this huge theatre (85 ft wide screen)and effects sure was worth it.

         Next we took the Flight Line Trolley Tour (free) for an interesting 45 minute narrated tour of the outside displays.

this veteran in red (Dave), was out tour guide, some funny stories he had.

a drone helicopter

moving a Blue Angel Pane around 

another interesting video

         Now this display below was amazing and free too.

       This video was a 4d experience on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, sounds, winds, noise and even the vibration of the the planes on the deck, was amazing !

       One of the original first space capsules.

       Then we wandered over to Hanger One, checked out some displays, watched a couple more short videos, then actually bought 2 tickets for the Blue Angels 4d experience. Another amazing presentation.
         Not really too bad of a day. Free admission, we spent 5 hours there, almost nonstop, packed our own lunch to save time and money and still did not have time to see everything we wanted. Guess we need to come back again in the future.

another unmanned fighter plane

             Now its after 3 pm gonna head back home about a 45 minute drive. Our plan for supper was to BBQ some pork ribs on our Weber Q. But time was running out . So I went to Plan B. Have not done this for a while but works wonderful. Instead of a couple hours on the Q, I whipped out our pressure cooker, put a rub on the ribs, on top of a tiny trivet, 1/2 cup watter, sauerkraut and once under pressure about 12 minutes. So tender.

        Preheat the Weber Q and just brushed the ribs with a BBQ sauce I whipped up, then glazed them for about 12 minutes, so tender, tasty and fall off the bone good.

yep sure did the trick

       That was it for another fun busy day, ending with a very tasty meal. 

       Hope you had a wonderful one too!

Posted by George, a.k.a. "The Weber "Q" Man of Blogland" according to Rick Doyle.

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