Down to the Wire!

Last Saturday, David and the boys were gone out to see the Red Bull Air Race Show at the bay area in Downtown of San Diego in order to free me up for a couple of hours. This idea began back in 2003, and has grown into a successful worldwide racing series. It also held on four continents and visits carefully selected, exciting locations around the globe. Thus, the boys and David were lucky to witness their lifetime show for FREE ! (It is too bad that my brother in law, Bob was not with them because we know he loves to drive on a small airplane.)
Actually, it was supposed to have a storm over the weekend. The blessing part was the storm was putting it on hold for the weekend for them, so they could watch the world best pilots. There were thirteen pilots from all over the world being a competition.

Before the show began, David parked his Jeep two blocks away from the bay. Three of them walked all the way to a vacant place, Shoreline Park not far from where David's work on a Navy Base. Overcrowded people made it even more difficult to find a vacant place. Yet, they were being optimized until they found a vacant place. The only vacant place was to sit on a huge black rock by the bay.

While waiting for the show began, they had a lunch. Shortly after they found a place and a lunch, the show began. It was amazing to watch the pilot from a helicopter followed each of the other small airplanes closely at approximately 300 feet from each other. All of a sudden, the helicopter flew too close to them which was about 80 feet above them! It scared them ! Lucky, it didn't give David or the boys a nightmare !

Then the other small airplanes began their contest. Each pilot must increase the speed over to 250 mph with 75 decimal. It was extremely loud enough to be heard, even for David, who is profoundly deaf. While watching the planes swiftly by them, Ryan and Dylan stood like as if they were a little bit of terrified. Yet, Ryan had mixed feelings: exciting and terrified at the same time.

The race continued for an hour, but the boys were being burned out after 20 minutes of watching the show. They were exhausted from the sun and sitting on the top of the rock becoming uncomfortable. Yet they were being good sportsmanship throughout the show and walked two blocks back to David's Jeep.

Besides of being exhausted of sitting under the sun, I personally think it was a worthwhile they experienced watching the world best pilots. It may be the only chance to watch the show in their lifetime for FREE.