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Updated May 5, 2002.                      VP-50 HHome1 March, 1991
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 IMAGES FROM 2002 SOY Week!!

Season's Greetings and Happy Holidays to all!  It's been an eventful interregnum since the last update
and we hope to capture a brief glimpse of some of those events and, of course, new pictures of the boys.  There was travel, thrills, parties, Navy stuff, camping, and more!


Thanks to the Official Photographer of the Garrett family, Jenny Sweeney!

 

Diana and I spent a week in Washington, D.C. for Sailor of the Year Appreciation Week in July.  One of the highlights was a cruise on the Severin River at Annapolis, Maryland.

Dan spent two weeks in Australia with a multi-service, multi-national contingent of Reservists in June/July.  Click on the picture for more details.

No trip to Washington, D. C. is complete without a tour of the Capitol building.

 

This is from the frocking ceremony in July.  Left to right, Cam Smith, me, Diana, Sid Greene (Diana's dad), and Admiral Clark (CNO).

For the Father's Day weekend, we went to Touleme Meadows Camp with the Fonda Family.  Dad leaps off Beaver Head Rock.

Nick and Marilyn found a way to keep Alexander under wraps!

 

Darwin and Marilyn make a lovely couple.

Butterflies and moths abounded.  Alex found this deceased Luna moth.

We took a hike up a creek (no paddle) and all got soundly wet.

Darwin strikes his best GQ pose.
August 28, 2001

Alexander lost his first tooth on Aug. 28th.

This is a re-run from May, 2001.  Back by popular demand (Diana wanted it).

Members of San Jose Naval Air Reserve Center, VP-65, and my mom at a San Jose City Council meeting in late August.

Mom, Darwin, and Diana in front of one of San Jose's famous shark art project at City Hall.

Chief Petty Officers from several commands were frocked (promoted officially) at a ceremony at VP-65's hangar in mid-September.

One of the first social functions for the new Chiefs is the Khaki Ball, held at Pt. Mugu in late September.

Diana and I at the BD Company summer picnic in August.

Alexander had a blast at the squirt gun maze.

Kim Fonda in front of the water tube slide.

In late August, World Famous Combat Aircrew Five and guests trekked to Misawa, Japan for a two week detachment.

Much time was spent checking into, and out of, various unaccomodating accomodations (The North Star Inn, Alaska depicted here).

Cam, Pat, and Tony at the Over-The-Hump party in Misawa.

Diana went back East to visit Leo, Laurie, David, and Lila.  Here nephew Mitchell shows his pre-drivers license talents.

Westin helps hitch the ski boat to the truck.

Tyler supervises the operation.

Leo shows Dee Dee how to ride the wakeboard in North Carolina.

The boys go for a ride!

Diana is a quick study in the Zen of Wakeboarding.

Oops, maybe not such a quick study...

All's well that ends well!

Cousin David in the Pottery shop.  Visit their work at www.carolinapottery.com

Leo has a throw at the wheel.

Aunt Lila and Dee.
"Everyone doubted that I could make a fish".

Here we are at Halloween already.  Darwin is the White Ninja and Alexander assumes the guise of Sorcerer.  We're Trick or Treating at BD and Alex collected $16 for UNICEF!

In November, we visited the San Francisco Maritime Museum for the 150th anniversary of the publishing of Moby Dick.  The boys spent much of the day in the hold of the C.A.Thayer, an old lumber schooner.

Darwin hides out in a coil of line with the prow of the C.A. Thayer in the background.

Dee, kids, and Kutya went for a bike ride with the Sweeney's while Dad did his Navy stuff in mid-November.

Over Labor Day weekend we invited ourselves to Rob Voice's remote hermitage with Beau, Griffy, and Kim F.  Then the kilts came out...

Kim demonstrates the proper amount of laid-backness for the occasion.

Round 'bout October the boys somehow became interested in practicing Naginata at San Jose State's dojo.  Here they meet Dr. Hazard Sensei.

How many kids get to whack their dad on the head with a stick and live to tell the tale?
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