Goings On of Late

I'm definitely missing some photos from this past week but here is a sampling of what's been happening! Oliver, Melissa and Ladybird (their dog) arrived on Tuesday and we all hung out before Melissa flew out to work for two weeks before flying back up. Oliver and Ladybird are staying with us for a bit visiting family and friends.
This past Saturday, we all headed down to RI for the 20th Anniversary of the RI National Guard Airshow. It's something that Oliver and Dad did for years and I joined them for a few myself :-) It's always a guaranteed good time!

Oliver (my brother) and I standing in front of an old (but spiffy!) plane holding our Del's Lemonade! We each had 2 of these over the course of the day - they are soooooo yummy!!! Matt enjoyed his first Del's as well. There is honestly, nothing in the world like a Del's lemonade!

As you can tell by the huge sweatshirt I'm wearing, the day did not start out all that wonderful. We drove through driving rain, lightening and thunder to get down there. Luckily, it cleared up in the afternoon so the planes could fly. But since the morning wasn't so great weather-wise, we spent the time inside planes and walking around looking at some old and new aircraft.

This is Oliver and I sitting inside the cockpit of a C-130J - it's still active and used with the RI National Guard to transport people, cargo and or vehicles for the armed forces. I have to say this cockpit was quite roomy! They had a skylight, microwave, coffee maker, the pilot said they bring a cooler for cold drinks, etc and 2 bunks for rotational sleeping for pilots on longer flights!

My husband Matt, sitting in the co-pilots chair of the C-130J. This was his first Airshow and he had a great time!

Oliver making a funny face standing next to a smaller reproduction of a WWII plane.

These two pictures (above and below) I took because I loved the detailed art on the back of this Navy Fighter Jet. It's a skeleton head smoking a cigarette in an old-fashioned cigarette holder with wings behind him. Just totally bad-a$$!

AWWWWWWW!!!!!

This is Oliver and Melissa's rescue dog Ladybird. She's snuggled up on Reese's bed after a long walk and bath - she found a great place to roll on the walk and got a bit dirty. I still can't believe she sleeps under a towel or blanket! Reese sleeps on top of everything!

More pictures will be coming soon - Thank you to my Dad who took most of the airshow photos. He got some INCREDIBLE shots of planes on Saturday - we all had a blast! :-)

And for those of you who are counting down the days (like crazy me!) we have 6 days left until BB lands in Boston!!!!!