Our family vacation for this year was a trip to Fort Collins to go to an RC jet rally. Aaron wants to fly jets someday, and the closest jet events for him to see them in action are in northern Idaho and eastern Colorado. So it's a trip. We drove through Wyoming because that's fastest --- it's still a long drive though. I was trying taking some pictures through the windshield while we were driving (it turns out better at the beginning of the trip when there is less dust and fewer bugs).
We got to Fort Collins late and stayed up even later. The next morning we headed out to see jets!
We used our shade shelter for the first time and it was great. No sunburns on this trip!
We don't quite have a fancy enough camera to get great jet action shots up close, but that doesn't stop us from trying! Really, this jet isn't going to hit this shade shelter, it just looks like it.
Friday night we went to dinner and hung out with one of Aaron's college friends and his family and stayed up late again. Then we were back out at the field on Saturday morning.
Saturday at noon all the pilots gathered in the jets so the spectators could look at them up close. We looked and took lots of pictures and were about to move out when one of the pilots asked if Zeke would like a picture with a jet. We said yes and the pilot carried him out into the center of the field by a jet. We took our picture and Zeke came back to us when some guys from the Academy of Model Aeronautics (the national organization) came by and asked if the pilot could take Zeke back out to the plane so they could get pictures for their magazine. Zeke could be in print in a few months!
2 comments:
That is cool that zeke might be in the magazine!
That looks like a fun trip. Out of curiosity was the friend Galen? (I am sure I spelled that wrong)
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