We finally made it to the air show! The last time they had a show one of our Quarry Bend employees refused to come to work so I had to work for him and missed the show. Fast forward through the every other year they put on a show, the COVID years, and finally the time has come to see the show and I’m not going to miss it!
We took the front runner to Hill Air Force base and so did the other 500,000 people. We were crammed in there. Paul and I felt like we were back in London on the tube at rush hour! No seating or standing room. No need to hold on to the railing when the train came to a stop because we all held each other up 🙂
Just as we reached the Clearfield station the train conductor told us they were not going to let any more people onto the base because they reached capacity. We we got off the train and walked to the shuttle anyway. We came all this way. I was going to set up my chair and watch the show from afar. Good thing we stayed. After 1/2 hour they opened the base and we headed up there.
This simple trip to the base was an ordeal. We left home at 10:00 am and arrived on the base at 1:00pm! We were pretty tired when we got there.
The wait and craziness with transportation was worth it. We walked onto the base, found some shade, set up our chairs and these two came out!
Dad walked around showing Eli the planes he worked on when he was in the air force.
He talked my dad into purchasing the most expensive airplane.
It was worth it. He loved it!
He followed all the jets in the sky with it.
Finally the Thunderbirds came out!
F-16’s are my favorite planes. I absolutely love them! I remember being on base for family day. Standing next to the tarmac and having that first jet fly over us. It flew so low and so LOUD! I was hooked on these planes.
It was a VERY long day. We left the base at 4:30pm and didn’t get home until 9:00pm, but it was worth it! I sure hope Eli loved it as much as I did 🙂