To celebrate Eve's birthday we went to the Santa Fe Air Show, along with us came Bettie and Bryce and their kids, and Karen and Kyle and their kids. The air show was great for a family event because there was a lot to do and to see. There were several planes and helicopters open to look into and a couple you could climb into. There was a small car show with lots of Corvettes for Gordon to drool over and in the hanger were displays advertising different groups and museums in the state, and they were all handing out goodies, pencils, pens or small toys. Each of the kids had quite a collection of stuff after going through there.
To start off the show they had the National Guard Colorguard present the flags and played the National Anthem. I love participating in patriotic events with my kids. I love the chance to show my kids how to act and show honor to our flag and our country. The first planes to fly through did a formation to honor the fallen soldiers. They were all together until right in front of the crowd, then one started to smoke and fell back, out of the formation. During this they played Taps over the speakers. It was so moving I was in tears. I was embarrassed and grateful I had my sunglasses on, but it was hard to recover my composure. Also during most of the show I couldn't help but remember my Dad, how much he loved planes, he would have loved to watch this with us. It made me miss him so much today.
After the first act the show was full of fun and tricks that were amazing to watch. Several times Gordon and I couldn't help but hope the pilot had taken dramamine before taking off.
One of the really neat acts was a glider that the pilot had mounted a jet engine on top of. He could do some really neat things since his craft had a lot of power, but not much weight.
But the most nail biting act was the "Wing Walker". Which was a woman who climbed on top of the plane, after takeoff and held on to a little metal apparatus doing hand stands and other tricks while flying around, including during loops and twists!
Here's the kids playing
And did you notice any yellow stuff in our ears? Bettie brought earplugs for everyone to help us save our hearing. It was a good thing too, because some of those planes were loud.
Here we are with an Alien, advertising for the Roswell UFO museum.
Here's some of the neat aircraft we saw.
And here's the car Gordon wants to own someday.
After the show we went to Kyle and Karen's home for the birthday cake and ice cream!
So now it's official, our Eve is four!
