Backyard Air Show by Blue Impulse

My rocket scientist brother is rather disappointed in me that I couldn't bring myself to walk the 3/4 mile to the flight line to watch the air show close up, but neither Claire nor Gigi like crowds or loud noises, so the flight line where there were close to half a million Japanese attending the "Friendship Day" air show was the last place I would show up. (Whew. Holy run-on sentence!)

Here's a photograph taken by the Marine Corps of the crowd. Traffic was backed up to Hiroshima. They stopped letting people in at 1:00 or so because of security and Mick said the funniest thing. He said, "The Chinese and North Koreans were here first thing. Wouldn't have hurt to let more Japanese in." ;-)

However, we were able to see the Japanese version of the "Blue Angels" from our backyard. They call themselves "Blue Impulse." Here are too many pictures, but we kept clicking away!

It was a really meaningful show for the Japanese people because the Blue Impulse are headquartered out of Sendai, where the tsunami hit, and this was their first show back after the devastation hit.

This is our backyard and our playhouse. So fun how they were practically flying over our house!

You wouldn't catch our Blue Angels doing this, but it was very Japanese and cute! (Japan is SO Japanese!) The last plane was flying an arrow through the heart, but the smoke was blowing away by the end.

They liked smoke!

Another fun backyard picture!

Our pilots didn't like the heart, but the ones I talked to after the show thought the star was cool! :)

Thank you Blue Angels for a fabulous show!

Our house is next to some Air Force Communications something or other ("We have Air Force here?" Yes. Three Airmen.) and it was guarded during the air show.

We gave them chairs. It was pretty funny to have armed guards outside our yard. They were very friendly! :)

Playing around with the zoom lens after the show.

He wore his Japanese character hat (from the High School, says "Samurai") for the show.

The show was over and it was safe for Gigi to wake up from her nap and she came out and ran around the yard in her diaper, covered by a diaper cover, which had to be covered with Dora panties.

Or as Mick said "She's not White T, She's White G!"

We went to a reception afterwards and I bought the Blue Impulse pilots and crew some beer and got a few pictures!

Arigato Gozaimasu

 (Thank you very much!)

Blue Impulse!