Glimmerick

This weekend was Seafair Weekend! It’s a festival that has become immensely popular with Seattleites and thousands of others that come to see the festivities. There are good reasons why this is such a popular weekend in this area:

• Blue Angel Air Show
• Hydroplane Races (and flips)
• Seafair Fun Run
• Parade
• An entire park filled with vendors, free give away’s, food, etc

It is a tradition that I like to go to these events every year, but I was unable to see them this year. Fortunately, the Blue Angels fly directly over our house during the show, and I was able to snap a pretty cool picture.

I don’t have the best camera in the world, but I took a decently cool picture. I just wanted to show some readers how cool they are. Just imagine them in person, engines roaring so loud that you can’t hear anything at all. It’s just epic!  During some of these formations, the planes are with 18” of each other. That is so close, that if their cockpits were open, the could scootch up and touch the adjacent plane’s wing. Just imagine how much team work this takes to pull off!
If even one of them tried to show off, do something a little fancy, they could all die. This is truly a unit. Sometimes when I am in group, I try to out shine the others, but often times, all I end up doing is making us look bad. Recognizing situations in which you need to genuinely act as a unit is very important in life. I hope your weekend was awesome!

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