Air Show/American Lake

If you look very closely in this pic, you can see my kids in the tube (ok, that part is easy to see), above the island to the right is a bald eagle, and above the island left of center is two airshow planes. The best of all worlds!

The McChord Air Show is this weekend. While the thought of an airshow is fun, we think of being hot and tired and waiting around a whole lot when we really think about it. And traffic. Lots of traffic. Since we can see the planes landing normally on McChord from the lake we decided to give it a try today and see if we could see some of the show from the boat. We saw a good bit - enough to make us all happy and no one miserable. I didn't get tons of pictures b/c while watching the kids were swimming and tubing and we were forcing Jordan out in to the water to cool off. Not the best times to be taking pics. We let the kids tube together for the first time and let Sam tube alone (very slowly) for the first time. Two summers ago and last week he went with me. There weren't that many people on the lake today since it was cool and the day started out very cloudy - and maybe they were all at the airshow. In any case, it was a good day to try Sam out without me.