We got up and went to the "Great Lawn" around 10:30 a.m. It was already getting a bit crowded, but Jeff was nice enough to go a few hours ahead of time and stake out our groups area with ropes and tarps. It was a huge event. At times we wandered the venues, getting the standard carni junk food. It obviously got even more crowded as the day went on. By about 7 p.m. the venues were so crammed full of people that people were walking shoulder to shoulder in every single direction.
The air show was awesome. The last air show I remember was one with some of my cousins and my Grampa, and I don't remember it very well. This one was amazing. They had some really cool formation group planes doing a bunch of stunts making it look like they were going to crash into eachother. The 2nd half of the air show was pretty much a bunch of show-boating pilots from the aired forced strutting their stuff. They had F-14's, F-16's, A-10's, F-22's etc. They even flew in some Apache and Chinook Helicopters doing some crazy stuff!
Then came the moment that Cindy and I flew out to Kentucky for. It was the BIGGESGT FIREWORKS SHOW IN NORTH AMERICA. (I've been to the 4th of July fireworks in Washington DC ... this was bigger.) It went for about 30 minutes, and at times you could feel the ground shaking with each explosion. It literally rocked!
After about 2 hours of sitting in next to dead traffic, we finally got home in time to sleep for almost 4 hours before we got up and flew home to Salt Lake, then drove back up to Rexburg.
It was definitely the experience of a lifetime. You just can't describe how cool it really is, it's just something you have to see for yourself.
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I agree, it should be a family tradition...Jeff and Cheryl will need a bigger house! Well, I guess there are some hotels around too....or we could camp in their back yard!
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