Love Those Fly Boys

Seattle hosted it's annual Seafair festivities this week, aka "Fleet Week", and to top it all off, they always have the Blue Angels come to town for two air shows. I remember watching the Blue Angels when I was young when my dad was in the Navy, but of all the years I lived in this area, I had never gone to see them at Seafair. So this was definitely something I wanted to share with my boys. I found a great park east of Seattle on Mercer Island that overlooks Lake Washington, where the "Blues" do most of their low-flying tricks. It is also where the Hydroplane races are taking place. So as you can imagine the water was crowded with boats full of crazy partiers (FUN!). I even saw a few Coast Guard boats on patrol.

This is just a very small portion of the boaters.

Hydro race in the distance

We brought our picnic and found a nice spot on the lawn with a wide open view of the sky in the 90 degree weather (I guess I am glad it wasn't 104). The show was so amazing! How they maneuver those jets to do what they do is mind-boggling! I could never get bored of watching them. Unfortunately, the pics I had time to take were of when they were further away from us...but there were times when they would fly so close I thought I would go deaf. I was just not camera-ready!!



Scotty & Zac really seemed to enjoy it, too, when they weren't having to fumble for their ear muffs.

We were surprised when, during the show, two eagles went flying right over our heads. I don't know if that was set up or just coincidence, but it was pretty cool. Everyone in the crowd just started clapping & cheering.

God Bless America and God Bless those Navy boys!! I feel like watching Top Gun tonight :)