Air Force Week

So, Air Force Week just ended. I guess every year the Air Force chooses 3 cities to host the Air Week and this year they chose Salt Lake/Hill Air Force Base. So Mark and i went to a few of the events that they had going on.

We started the week off on Monday going to a Bee's baseball game. We took the public train system TRAX to get there. here we are having a little photo shoot on the train.

Oh my. so GQ.

At the game they had 4 guys parachute in. The first one that landed brought the ball for the first pitch.

Then the last guy brought the flag. it was pretty cool!

Here I am getting pretty excited for the game... and my hot dog! We had some pretty killer seats! first row!!! and we got the tickets for free!! We finally found something to use our American Express points for.

The coolest part of the night was when we were singing the National Anthem, on the last note they had a big bomber with 4 jets fly really low over the stadium. it was awesome!!

We didnt get a picture of them over the stadium, but here they are getting ready.

Once the game got going we had some bad weather. It eventually started raining pretty good so we gave up and went home. But not before getting some pretty cool pics!

On Saturday they had the BIG hoopla! We got up early and caught TRAX in Sandy, took that to downtown Salt Lake, then got on the FRONT RUNNER to Clearfiled, then got on a shuttle to Hill Air force Base. It took us about an hour total, but it was well worth it. Here is the FRONT RUNNER pulling in. As you can see it was a beautiful day!

When we got to Hill AFB they had a ton of different kinds of planes (and a few helicopters) that you could just walk up to. Most of them you could actually climb into! Mark liked this one because it was the one the parachuters jumped out of at the game. (and later on this day!)

We loved this plane. It is a transporter plane. We got to talk to the pilot of this plane and he said that they transport everything from tanks, cars, other planes, ANYTHING that needs transported. It was SOOO HUGE!!! He said it weighed about 400,000 pounds, and it can haul up to 200,000 pounds of cargo!

Here is the view from the other end.

Here are the ones we really wanted to see fly, but didn't get to stay long enough. They are the "thunderbirds." They go real real fast!

Here is another cool plane.

Once the show started, they had 11 parachuters jump out and land in front of us

Here is the guy bringing in the flag

Ha Ha!!! This little girl was sitting in front of us and she kept licking the umbrella!!! It was so weird and gross!!!! She was really going to town. (notice she is wearing "ear plugs." those planes are so loud!!!)

Here is another cool shot

On our way home we got to stop at Lagoon for a while. Mark's dad had some free tickets for his work party. So we stopped and went on a few rides and got free lunch!!

After Lagoon we had to RUN to catch the train. We barely made it!! here we are being so happy that we didnt have to wait 1/2 an hour in the sun for the next one.

Between the air show, lagoon, and free lunch, we got all stamped up!!

Once we got back we stopped at Mark's parents and i got to work on on a quilt!

We had such a long day! But we had so much fun!!! And the best part, it was all FREE!!! well, we paid $4.00 for the shuttle to the AFB, but that doesn't really count right? I love being a student! If we didnt have our bus pass through school, just the transportation there and back would have been about $26.00

For those of you who are interested, here is a little video from the Air Show. It definitely wasnt one of the coolest ones, but it was all cool!