A view from the back porch

So I've mentioned here several times about the many balloons that we get to see in the air throughout the year.  Not very often do we get to sit on our back porch and watch this:

Yep, you guessed it, this landed practically in our back yard - ok so maybe on the road behind us, but close enough to call our backyard.  It was pretty fun watching it.  It then took off again and flew right over us,  they were so close we could wave to them and say "good morning".

An hour at the Airport

Yesterday, we went and spent about an hour at our second airport here in the valley.  This would be the airport where the smaller planes fly in and out of.  It was actually somewhat of a special day whereas there was a B-17 visiting.  That was the purpose of our visit.  Jake is working on an Aviation merit badge for Scouts and had gone out there the day before with his merit badge counselor- so of course he wanted to head back out there to show all of us this plane. 

So out we headed and this is what we saw:

 The bomb compartment:

First class seating at it's finest:

This particular plane was built in 1947 and never actually saw war but many others just like it did.

While we were there we saw a friend of mine who does have a plane out there.  How exciting was that?  She took us over to it so the kids could sit in it and check it out.  The plane's name is Skittles - gee wonder why?  Wouldn't be the colors would it?

Future airline pilots:

Even saw the news helipcopter while we were there.

It was definitely a fun-filled time