Chad and Erika: May 2008

AIR SHOW!

Chad and Erika love airshows! We swung by picked up our friend henry after work and had a blast.

here we are ready for take off!

Erika and Henry looking for water

Every air show i have ever been to has to have these things:
1. Sunburn
2. Lots of dust and dead grass
3. It is very hot
4. extreme thirst
5. parking miles away
6. huge crowds
And this airshow did not fail us!

this is my favorite airplane of all time, the A-10 thunderbolt (or warthog) Henry bought me a shell from the nose cannon as souvenir.

Here is Henry and I next to the awesomest plane ever made.

Here i am with the pilot, call sign "Bitter". i have no idea how he got that name but from what they told me it could be worse. I would want something along the lines of say, Ice Man, Maverick, Viper, Merlin, Jester, I could go on and on. Bitter has one of the best jobs there is, if he didn't have to be away from his family so much and get shot at all day. However if i am going to get shot at, I would want get shot at while flying this plane!

Henry enjoyed the tasty European treats!

Henry...Duck!

This is one of the sweetest cars i have seen in real life. So henry is going to write a new parenting book called "Get the !@#$ away from that chain". At the air show we all learned that if you want your child to do something you don't spank them or instruct them kindly, you use the f word. I think His book is going to be a big best seller. We heard this technique demonstrated for us numerous times. In fact that is where the title of the book is going to come from, it is a direct quote after a very young child knocked the chains over on to the million dollar car.

The air force Thunderbirds were the main attraction and it was awesome!!

One of the coolest parts of the show was when we were all watching 4 of the jets fly in formation and out of no where another one comes really low and really fast and blew our eardrums out!

As we were watching the air show i was trying to imagine standing out there in the desert trying to shoot at one of those jets with some 1970's piece of soviet junk bazooka gun. First you can't hear the jets until they have probably already blown you up and are on their way back to base. Second if i were some how able to out run the jet on my trusty steed i think this helicopter would suddenly appear from behind a dune and finish off the job. Another lesson i took away from the air show is not to mess with the US military!

someone told me this plane was in one of my favorite movies, Top Gun (Which Erika and i watched the night before the air show to get pumped up!) I am not sure if that is true or not.

Coffee shop is doing well, we just purchased our first plane.

i wish my exhaust pipes looked like this.

We were all convinced we were going to die in the desert due heat exhaustion and thirst deprivation. However we were able to find refreshment at the AM PM.
Another thing we learned is that if you tell people you are "from out of town" they are a lot kinder and forgiving of your bad driving and other mistakes you might make. I think it makes them feel special that you would visit their town and that they get to give you some inside information about the place. (even if the town where you are from is only 10 min away, but they don't have to know that!)

Augie's Coffee House staff picture

Erika's grandpa came to visit and we had to get a staff picture. this is the whole crew!

Shona, Brian, Gentry, Mike, Augie, Erika, Chad

Last trip for the season

Well we made it up to the mountains for one last day of snowy bliss before all the snow melted.
It is now in the 90's almost 100's so i thought i would reminisce about colder days.