Andrews Air Show

It all began with an email from our friends, the P's, who go to the Andrews Air Force Base Air Show nearly every year. Coach Bill is the assistant coach of Julia and Nick's team, so we all felt an obligation to go to the soccer game, thus we got a late start to the air show. We paid for it...we were late enough that it took 2 hours to get from the parking area at Fed Ex Field to the Base. But we did it, with no problem, other than the long wait. The kids did great!

The security was so slow getting everyone through that they began turning people away from Fed Ex. So we were lucky to be there and only wait as long as we did. Amazing.

The first cool thing was to ride the Metrobus. Brendan looooves buses and has never ridden one, so after the initial adjustment to actually being on a bus and taking it all in, he was happily singing "The Wheels on the Bus" and moving his arms to the song. Very cute.

Once there we ate and then walked about to see airplanes and helicopters or "kelihopters" as they are at our house. From there a big highlight was meeting up with Miss Jessica and her husband Mr. Albert. For a while the kids just didn't want to see planes they wanted to see Miss Jessica!!! We stopped to say hi and then went off to see a bit more before the Blue Angels started. The show was great. The kids enjoyed a late afternoon italian ice and all was good to get back into line and wait another almost 2 hours, I think, to get back to Fed Ex Field. But it was worth it. We all had a great time. Thanks so much to the P's for the idea, invitation and for making it such fun!