Blue Angels

Destin happens to be near Pensacola, which happens to be where the Blue Angels were performing. So we saw them!


I'll use this picture of Grey to show you that it was hot.


We arrived just as the show was starting, so we didn't go to the official viewing area but found a patch of shade to watch.


I got a nice red ant bite during this- love those southern insects.


But anyway, the show was cool and I marveled at their close proximity during maneuvers.


They could move crazy fast but my favorite was when they'd slow down and fly with their noses pointed up, like dolphins skimming the water. It's a wonder they didn't just topple out of the sky.


Then Sean took the camera and shot his brother while his brother shot him.


Then a plane went right overhead and freaked out Grey completely. It was so loud (at one point during the show I tried to tell Sean to take a photo of a nearby plane and I couldn't even hear myself). Anytime he started hearing the planes approach, he'd vice grip my shirt and press an ear against me while I covered the other ear.


Sawyer, however, was unfazed.


The finale.


Some of the family looked around the plane yard.


And then we were ready to leave the heat.


So we went in the plane museum. Where we all immediately lost each other.


But we found each other eventually. And I'm happy to report that Grey did not sustain any lasting damage from his experience- he'sstill happy to point out every plane in the sky.