Day #6: Root Canal and Airplanes

My dad's tooth has been bothering him for about a week now, and given that his right lower jaw had blown up like a golf ball he decided it was finally time to get the root canal his dentist told him he would eventually need.   He scheduled an appointment for the only time available -  later in the afternoon,  so we decided to go to the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola -  just down the road.  We tagged onto a tour and learned a lot about some of the first planes and how the Navy had/ has been involved in aviation. We saw an IMAX film called 'The Magic of Flight' which gave us a quick overview of the history of aviation along with showing footage of the Blue Angels (the Navy's stunt performance team). We enjoyed our visit to the museum a lot (see some pictures below). After the museum I went back to the hotel while my dad went to the endodontist.   I watched a few Family Guy episodes and had lunch in the room. It turns out that the dentist my dad saw is a fellow Jew from Brooklyn, NY - aren't all dentists.  The dentist was so excited to see a tribal member from New York (evidently a rare occurrence in Pensacola)  that he called in the entire staff to introduce him.  For a while my dad was comparing his tooth situation to Tom Hanks tooth situation in the movie Cast Away.  Fortunately he made it to a dentist and did not have to solve the problem with a blade of an ice skate.

Tomorrow we hope to make it to Alabama (again)

Check out a video of us biking on a nice stretch of road yesterday on our way to Pensacola, FL (please excuse my dad's heavy breathing) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id6fniXIzng

Thanks for coming along for the ride!