USS Howard Kids Fishing Trip

What an amazing experience we got to have last night! A HUGE thank you to daddy's ship, bloodydecks.com and the Daily Double fishing boat for taking out the kids/families from the ship on a twilight fishing trip! Just what my boys have been dreaming of. The only thing that could have possibly made it better would have been to have daddy along with us.

They went all out! They had more pizza than we could eat and drinks and little candy treats. They started out the trip by giving all the kids lewers which they thought were great fun to play with. Once we got out there the deck hands were amazing! The men were all ages and all had so much patience. They helped the kids and all three boys caught or reeled in 2 fish. All Owen wanted to do was reel in. It was pretty funny. The kids all LOVED the bait fish. At the beginning it was funny because Jacob and Nathan were all for grabbing out their bait themselves while other kids (even boys older than them) would not touch them. Jacob was ripping them out of the tanks and "showing" the girls making them scream (and laugh). It was quite funny to watch them interact. I was praying I would not get sick and broke out the sea bands and thankfully did just fine. The big highlight of the night was one young man caught at 23 pound Halibut! It was incredible. The ship went crazy. And the grand finale was every Friday night the USS Midway Museum lets off fireworks so they were able to keep us out a bit longer and we sat (at a safe distance) right off the barge that lets off the fireworks. Incredible! Nothing like sitting on a boat with all the city lights off in the distance with fireworks up above you. The kids thought they were JUST for THEM. It was perfect. All of us got Tshirts and ended the night exhausted back home at almost 11. Such a great trip and one we will remember for a very long time. The boys are already plotting on how soon they can get Daddy to take them out on another trip. I am sure it will be soooo hard to twist his arm (note the sarcasm) :) Here are pictures!!