What's the best Blue Angels souvenir on the beach?
Anyone wanting to buy a souvenir Friday to commemorate that time, way when back in 2021, when they went to Pensacola Beach to watch the Blue Angels fly in the airshow will not have a hard time finding something to buy. Vendors who have set up shop at Casino Beach are expecting a big day of sales. Blue Angels hats dont just come in blue. There are pink, dark green and yellow Blue Angel-themed head wares aplenty. Visors on sale Friday picture Super Hornet fighters overtop red, white and blue backgrounds. And, of course, there are shot glasses, mugs and aviator sunglass displayed in beach booths, too. Terry Hynds, the vice president of Airware Inc., was managing three booths Friday morning with big blue banners that each advertised Blue Angels Souvenirs.  Live updates:Blue Angels Pensacola Beach Air Show updates Friday  More:Blue Angels' new jets a 'little bit faster, little bit bigger, little bit louder'  Airware Inc. has been designing Blue Angel Airshow shirts since 1999. We come every year, Hynds said. We quadrupled our Thursday sale record out here yesterday. Usually, Thursdays are quiet, and its just the locals here. But when we had four times our record sales, yeah, were definitely expecting a big day today.  As of 7:30 a.m. Friday, Hynds said his best seller has been his booths newest Airshow shirt that sports pictures of the new fighters that will be featured in this years show and the new Fat Albert plane. We have a new Airshow shirt every year, Hynds said. People love them. Its like a collectors item. They keep them like shot glasses.  He added, Ill see people still wearing their shirts from 1999.  Although, not a best seller  yet  Hynds particularly likes the original design of one of his t-shirt types that depicts an image of the Three Mile Bridge being torn apart by Godzilla and says, 2020 Barge Demolition team.  See, Hynds said. We crossed out the word demonstration and wrote over demolition.  Anybody who lived here over the last nine months can relate to it, he added. The locals come up and get a kick out of it, but tourists dont understand.  But souvenirs are not the only thing for sale at the beach. After all, people have to eat. Ryan and Mika Wells drove all the way from Dublin, Georgia to set up their drink stand, Tropical Smashers, where they sell non-alcoholic pineapple-based drinks. According to Ryan Wells, his businesses signature drink is So nice we had to name it nice.  More:New jets, new Fat Albert and new boss: 75th Blue Angels beach show filled with firsts  More:Despite rain potential, Blue Angels Pensacola Beach Air Show 'still a go' for weekend  You get to try it before you by it. Guaranteed to take you from peaches to beaches  a sip of paradise in every cup, Ryan Wells added, laughing. You can tell, Ive done this before, huh?  Having never brought their business to the Pensacola Beach Airshow before, the Wells said that they didnt know what to expect for sales on Friday. But we have 300 gallons of lemonade to get rid of, if that tells you anything, Ryan Wells said, still laughing. One booth over, local artist Rhea Kessler, had fit three of her businesses into a single booth selling original paintings, oyster shell art, snacks and drinks and CBD oil. We are expecting a big day, she said.