My brother was at work today, so we did homeschool for most of the day and then drove to a local park where we met Brian and Emily, friends of ours from college:
We spent a couple hours catching up on the last twenty years. Brian gave us two “learn to solder” kits that his daughter designed. Very impressive!
Back at the RV, the kids dressed up Bondi in Abercrombie clothes:
Today we drove over to St Paul to the Minnesota Science Museum. Unfortunately, they’re closed on Monday. We tried the adjacent Natural History Museum, but it too was closed on Mondays. We then drove a few blocks over to the Capitol, but it is closed to the public due to renovation:
Defeated, we drove to St Louis Park for lunch, refilling an empty propane container along the way.
Tonight we had a hot dog roast in my brother’s back yard:
We will try the museum again tomorrow, after calling to confirm they’re open.
We had a great Shabbos reconnecting with our friends from Saint Louis Park, MN, where we lived when we were first married over a decade ago. Today we moved our RV a bit west to the suburb where my brother lives to park in his driveway.
M bought a new scooter for himself last week, and today modified it to give it a PPG-themed name:
The kids turned Bondi, which we received as a gag gift, into a PPG pilot:
I went for a nice 34 mile ride out west of town, and found an ultralight flying field I may have to try out. Its amazing how quickly the city gives way to rural country:
This morning we said goodbye to the O family in Denver, where we’ve been parked since Shavuos. It’s been a lot of fun catching up, as we haven’t been here since 2011:
The kids will miss the family dog, Radar:
It was a tight fit getting out of the driveway:
We drove east to the Snowflake PPG flying site, where we stayed a few nights before Shavuos. We dropped off the RV and drove just a few miles down the road to the Rocky Mountain Airshow. The first performance was by local PPG pilots Nathan and Chris:
Several vintage warbirds flew by, including this NA-50:
And this T-6:
Doug Jardine, flying his Sbach 342:
Matt Younkin, performing impressive maneuvers in his Twin Beech passenger plane:
The Air Force Honor Guard did a demonstration:
The highlight of the snow was the USAF Thunderbirds, flying the F-16 Falcon:
The Calypso maneuver:
Crossover Break maneuver:
Delta Wing formation:
Delta Burst maneuver:
Bomb Burst maneuver:
At the bottom of the Bomb Burst, all four planes cross each other’s paths at 90 degree angles:
The afternoon program had Bob Carlton flying his Subsonix:
We saw several flybys by this World War II era B-25 Mitchell. Named “Maid in the Shade”, it is one of only a few dozen still flying:
Flyby with bomb bay doors open:
The last performer we saw was Don Nelson flying his Sukhoi 26:
Traffic in and out of the airshow was considerable, but it was worth the wait. We’ve been trying to get the kids to an airshow since the beginning of the trip, so I’m glad we were finally able to do it.
Today we visited a local skate park. M received some great scootering tips from another boy at the park:
While the kids and Trish were doing homeschool, I was finishing up mouse-proofing the RV. There’s no way to seal up the basement level, as the slides actuate into and out of the basement, so those holes can’t be plugged up. What I’m trying to do is isolate the basement level from the living level in the RV. This mostly involved filling gaps around water and sewer lines that come up from the basement behind cabinets. In some cases, the holes were much larger than they needed to be:
The vent pipe went through a huge hole in the wall behind the kitchen cabinets, so I cut out a large piece of scrap wood, glued it to the wall, and filled in the remaining gaps with foam:
We will see what happens, hopefully the mice will get bored and leave instead of hanging out in the walls now that we’ve locked them out of our house.
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