May 9th - Monday
It is always nice to be at Camp LeJeune, as I personally enjoy the bright red and gold signs that the Marines use on all of their bases. There was a lot of construction going on at the base especially in the tank training areas. Huge observation towers being constructed.
We traveled along on route 17 which was rather sad, as in years before we stopped at Cherry Point to visit with our grandson, Travis and his family and we always enjoyed that visit and we all had a special place that we liked to go to eat, so we had to drive past our exit and continue on up the road. However, that didn’t stop us from talking about our good times we had shared together.
Once we were settled in at the Coast Guard Base, we drove out to see Aunt Hettie, and she was delighted to see us and Estee, she immediately coaxed Estee to crawl up onto her lap and kept her there throughout the majority of our visit. When we visit with Aunt Hettie, we always sit on the front porch, as that is her favorite place to be, and we have to agree it is a very pleasant place to be. The fragrances of the flowers were wonderful. Lou picked some honeysuckle for her room. We made arrangement with the staff to pick her up at 10:00 the next morning to take her for a ride and out to lunch, so we told her good bye with promises to be back the next morning.
Lou and I left and made the short drive back to the base. We drove around the base and Lou found the road that lead out to the blimp hanger which I found very interesting. There had been a wooden hanger, which was called clam-shell hanger that was build prior to WWII in the Weeksville Community. It houses the blimp and also was used to make repairs to the blimps. It was the largest hanger in the world. It burned to the ground; however, you can see in the pictures, the tall cement structures that remain. You can also see the new hanger that is now used to house the blimps that are used today.
That was an interesting way to end our first day with Aunt Hettie.
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