Day 4

Today we were off to visit the air force area and see the choppers.

Here is where I met Jerry Reid - he's a gunner for the Griffin helicopter. I have been in a Griffin helicopter before and that was when I rode with a bunch of 8 year olds on Family Day. Jerry's a great guy and I think he has the best job in the CF. He said that EVERYONE is happy to see him (except Taliban) as they are mainly there to cover the ground troops and the Chinooks. He said that he loves to have everyone's back - very cool.

Pat Coutu was our pilot on Monday and I met him. He looks MUCH more intimidating with the helmet on. Really nice guy and I'm hoping to meet up with both of these guys when they're back home.





From here we had some lunch and got ready to watch the MMA fights. BOO-YA. I wasn't really a huge fan of UFC or MMA before but I really enjoyed watching this.

The strange part was that these guys had to hang out for the week - which must be a little bit strange as they are going to be punching each other on this day.





All of the fighters had something to say to the Canadian troops which was great. Well most of them did - one was knocked out so we let that slide THIS TIME.

We went back to the Canada House where I bumped into some old army buddies. I'll post those pics up in a bit.