SeaFair

Back to Seattle for more touring and friends to visit.  Sunday was SeaFair on Lake Washington with the Blue Angels.  We left home around 7 am (way too early!), stopped at the first Starbucks and headed for Seattle where we met our friends from San Jose, Mark & Diana.  Looking for a good place to spend a week, they decided to come to Washington and visit me.  SeaFair is sponsored by Boeing who is the BIG deal here in Seattle so we got to see some of their planes also along with some Hydroplane races!

Yachts watching the show

Because the show is on Lake Washington lots of people board their boats and come out for the show or find a great spot along the shore to watch.  We bought tickets since we don’t know the area although I think the best seats were on these yachts!  The good thing about us buying tickets is we knew where we were going to be sitting.  We also were able to see all the vendors, buy souvenirs and enjoy the free stuff!  We got free granola bars, shopping bags, water bottles, sunscreen and lots of coupons which I will throw away when we get home!  The best booth was the AT&T booth; they were giving free stuff away if you let them put a dot on your hand and stood in line for about 5 minutes!!! Diana won a folding chair which we now own!  and I won a new LG Quantum phone!  It will be on Craigslist in a few days as I like my Iphone way too much.  Thanks AT&T.

Preparing to race

We never really quite figured out the Hydroplane races.  They run heats and only 3 laps around a course of buoys on the lake.  We did see one flip over so that was cool.  They move so fast across the water that you can barely see them once they get going.

Here they come

The races were throughout the day and in between the planes took to the air.

One of Paul's favorites

Sean D Tucker fly’s the Oracle Plane and does some amazing stunts.  When he was finished our nice blue sky was quite smokey.  Then the big show!

Beautiful plane, amazing flying and so close together!  Then the show sponsor brings out their new plane.  Here is the new 747-8.

747-8

 

A great show, now we are off to Everett Washington so the boys can see how they build these planes!

 

Comments are closed.