Hurricane Ivan was the most thrilling hurricane that Clay has experienced to date! Although, for the first time he had to admit, he was a little frightened. It was a storm none of us will ever forget. It was the night of all nights. Did I mention that Clay is a storm chaser? Yep! Scares his mom to death but he loves it.
Clay and his friends loved attending the Pensacola Pelicans Hockey games. Those games and Monday night bowling with the gang are memories he will have for the rest of his life and tell his children about.
Who could have known that at age four when Clay was talking about flying someday that in high school his teacher would arrange for his class to actually go up. Later on Dean would arrange to take Clay to the Pensacola Airport to fly again around Pensacola and Fort Walton Beach. The pilot and Clay's scout leader (a vietnam war hero pilot) both told Clay that he was a natural. Clay has spent 100's of hours on the computer playing Flight Simulator and was surprised how well it prepared him for the real thing. Will he get to fly again? That's his goal!
Clay has attended every Blue Angels Stunt show that his schedule would allow in the last 20 years. The most recent being 10 days ago at an early morning Blue Angels practice on a Tuesday. He invited me to go along. It was magnificent, thrilling and generally awe inspiring.
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