Navy band at Battleship Memorial Park & Mardi Gras float

Today Judy and I went to Mobile and the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park to see and listen to a Navy band in town for Navy Week and the Mardi Gras activities.  It was a 5 piece band from Jacksonville, FL here participating in several parades and this free concert.  It was interesting they had 5 more sailors with them, a sound man, photographer, 2 master chiefs, and 1 lieutenant.  They did good but I like orchestras, larger bands or marching bands.

As long as we were here and it was a beautiful mid 70s day we walked around the park and took a few more pictures.  Here's the USS Alabama and a lady I saw there.

 

And a B52 bomber.

And the same lady with a B25 Mitchell bomber.

 She was even by a tank!

But she disappeared by the time I got a shot of the Mobile skyline.

 And a picture of the USS Drum.

 She even rang my bell.  And a loud bell it was!

 

The snowbirds made the campground rounds with the Mardi Gras float which they do every year.  This is a practice for the Tuesday parade in Gulf Shores.

Bill & Kay are this years king & queen.