Warning lots of pics
We planned our annual trip to the "Thunder Over Michigan" air show at Willow Run Airport in Detroit. I always let my son take a few friends, so that was the plan. On Wednesday last week I told him to get it hammered down who was going for sure so we were scrambling on Saturday night trying to figure out who was going. So he got busy well several of his friends had a baseball double-header on Sunday, and the rest had football practice. So in the end it was just him and I. Sweet!
Well for months he's been wanting to go to Buffalo Wild Wings for wings, and I kept telling him "it's super over-priced so sometime when it's just you and I, I'll take you." When he found out no one else could go that was the first thing on it his mind. So yes, we can go after the air show.
On to the show. It was great, The Blue Angels were performing this year. There was a really great F-16 demo. Now I've been to a LOT of air shows and seen a LOT of demos of a lot of planes, even an f-16 before. This pilot was exceptional, this had to be one of the best demos I've ever seen. SUPER cool! Maybe it was because it was overcast and he had to stay low, but he definitely wowed me and my son.
We watched several other planes fly, this is the B-29(only flyable one left in existence), B-17, Lancaster flight, with maybe a P-51, a Corsair, or a Mosquito thrown in, can't remember which was which and my phone wasn't great at taking pics.
Then the Blues got their shot, started with Fat Albert of course, which if you don't know is their name for their C-130 crew transport plane, but it also does a demo before the jets fly. It used to do a great demo of a JATO(or Jet Assisted Take Of) but apparently it doesn't do that anymore, which is sad because it was really the only thing that made it worth watching. C-130's are kind of boring.
On to the Blues, they were of course amazing, and somehow I even got some pretty good pics of them with my phone, even though it was so sunny I couldn't really see the screen most the time LOL.
They are always the last of the show, so we packed up and headed to see my younger brother's new place that he just moved to in Ann Arbor. It was very nice, we visited for about an hour, and he lives right down the road from The Big House, which my son asked me if we could drive by on the way home, well, of course! I'm a Michigan fan so hell yeah!
Then we drove through downtown Ann Arbor, back to 23(the freeway), I've been there before, but my son thought it was pretty cool. We decided to go to B-Dubs in Brighton but the exit I was going to use was closed so I had to go to the next one, which led me several miles through Brighton, through the downtown, and back out to some huge mall with a ton of traffic circles, thank God it was late Sunday and there was no traffic, or I'd still be stuck in the circles. Went to the restaurant and ate, it was fine, I hate wings, so I had a wrap, he had super hot wings and ended up ordering a glass of milk to go with it LOL.
Then we were cruising back through downtown Brighton, and I thought I caught the glimpse of a car show down one of the side streets. Well I LOVE cars and I didn't have any particular time to be home so I turned down the next one to see if we could find it. Parked the van and head back that way. Heard a band playing, we kept walking and low and behold they had the coolest sorta amphitheater on the river, and a live band was playing classic rock covers, really well I might add. SUPER cool, but, we came here for cars, so with the music in the background, on we walked. Turned the corner and JACKPOT! WOOHOO!
LOVE IT!
Funny, when we pulled in to park, my son said, it would be so cool if there was a Lamborghini... well there wasn't, in the show. We were walking back to the car, and I happened to look down another side street and I just barely spotted the back corner panel of something and I stopped and pointed and said "WAIT!, what is that?!" So this is what we found:
My son was in heaven, he took all the pics, well...except the one with him in it. He just stood and stared for a minute. The best part for me, he said, "Mom, this is my BEST DAY EVER, Jets, cars, b-dubs...dang!" It was certainly one of mine too, and the best part for me, hanging out with my almost 14 yr old son, 1 on 1 for the whole day, and him having a good time. Cause let's face it, when your that age, hanging out with your Mom all day is usually not high on your list. He even thanked me, "Mom, thanks again for the best day ever" :) Just happiness. Certainly, one of the best days ever.
