The Saturday of the Night Fly, we spent the morning working on finishing Aaron's plane, then around 3:00 a thunderstorm rolled in. Thunder, lightning, cold wind, raining cats and dogs. We were going to run to the grocery store before we headed flying, but we didn't want to go out in the heavy rain, so we stayed home and waited for the notice that the fly was cancelled. But the cancellation email never came, and after consulting the weather radar, we decided that there would probably be people and food at the flying field even if the weather wouldn't let us fly. So we loaded up and headed out.
About halfway through our drive we drove out of the rain and into the sunshine. When we arrived at the field it was 80+ degrees and sunny. We felt like we had entered another world - no wonder the event wasn't cancelled; the weather was fine here!
Dinner with melty chocolate chip cookes.
One of my favorite parts of the night fly is watching the sun set. It's easy to get beautiful sunset pictures out here.
Moon rising.
Sun setting.
Lights on and ready to fly.
We brought our glowsticks, but the club was handing them out. There weren't that many kids, so we got several packages!
Right as it got dark, we got a fireworks show. The next town over was having their town celebration, and we had a great view of the fireworks. We were far enough away that the sound was a bit behind the light, but not too much. The kids were so happy to have fireworks.
Planes flew until about 10 then everyone packed up and went home. We stopped at the grocery store on the way, and the kids were better behaved than ever before. It was kind of a small miracle! We speed shopped, checked out as the store was closing, and then went home to fall into bed. It was a fun night!
