air show

It's been a long day! I just got back about an hour ago from the air show and I'm downloading my photos now. I need a camera with a good zoom for events like this. I'm sure many of my photos aren't any good. The planes looked so close as they flew past, but they looked minuscule on the camera. I took some video toward they end when they did a mock rescue of a downed soldier. It involved four A-10 Thunderbolt's, four F-16 Fighting Falcon's, and two Black Hawk helicopters, so it was by far the coolest part of the whole day. Prior to that, there was a lot of lull time in between things happening in the air, so not quite as fast paced as I was hoping. An air show should have stuff going on IN THE AIR the whole time, or at least most of it. This didn't, but there were lots of planes, helicopters, and other equipment parked around to be able to see them up close, and you could get in some of them. I think I got some pictures of the U-2 spy plane in the air, but if they didn't turn out I got some pictures of it on the ground too.

I started to get a little irritable as I sat there people watching (nothing going on in the air) and realized I might have been the only person there by myself. Everyone seemed to have their significant others, kids, or friends with them. It will be nice when William is done in the field and we can start doing things together.

But, other than that, the day was good. The jets sounded awesome! Normally I hate really loud noises, but with jets the louder the better. I just checked some of the video I shot and the sound comes through much better than I expected. Hopefully I can post videos to Picasa. So, pictures coming soon and maybe video too. Until then, here's one I took of myself at the end of the day.