One advantage of living in San Diego is being close to friends we have known for many years from the Navy. Glenn and Kerry Wernz are friends from VP-48 days since 1984, continuing through a subsequent Washington D.C. tour, and here in California. Glenn is from Rick's home town and is a source of Cincinnati recipes. Kerry is a Southern California native of Finnish extraction, which means she is a wonderful person. Here we're giving Kerry's son's new spa and pool an operational test and evaluation.

	Kerry Wernz, Rick Erazo, and Ann Hoppus test the jets and waters in the spa.
	Chris Segal and Glenn Wernz check the safety of the flotation devices.

Another advantage of living in San Diego is the opportunity to meet officers in the Chilean navy and their families, who serve tours here as exchange officers to the U.S. Third Fleet.

SWO Pin This is Lieut. Mauricio Arenas and his wife Claudia Campaña. They had only been married a few months when they arrived. Mauricio served aboard a U.S. destroyer for a year, and that short time earned qualification as a Surface Warfare Officer (SWO) and is proudly wearing his pin (pictured here) on his Chilean naval uniform. They returned to Chile in January.

	Claudia and Mauricio's wedding in Chile a few weeks before their departure for San Diego.
	Claudia and Mauricio after a few weeks living in California.
	Claudia atop Mt. San Jacinto on a visit to Palm Springs.
	Maurcio trying earn some extra coin as an Elvis impersonator in Las Vegas.
	Claudia inside New York New York casino, looking for Elvis (Mauricio).
	Claudia Campaña Guzmán and Mauricio Arenas Menares.

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