Saturday, August 16, 2014
Yesterday we spent the day up in Michigan at Ted's girlfriend's house for her birthday, I think. All sides of the family were there, including Amy's...we haven't seen her girls in quite a while and I was almost shocked when I saw her oldest, who is about the age of Alex but looks much more grown up. It was a good time with all the cousins, but we did have to get home because the bathroom reno is now going to start next week and we hadn't gotten anything for them to install. So we left in the fairly late evening. The Warsaw air show was today. It was a good show, especially for the size of the town, but I think things were doomed from the start because it started off on the wrong foot. The whole family headed out early because they advertised hot air balloon rides (I presume tethered) until noon but when we arrived we found out that they were not doing balloon rides today at all. Too breezy, I guess. So the kids were pretty disappointed at that. Then a bit later, the next big even of the show was the candy drop from a genuine C-54 that was used in the Berlin air lift. However, they dropped a maybe couple hundred pieces of candy on a crowd of a few thousand, so if you were lucky enough to be standing right where it landed (we weren’t) you got one, if not, then not. So the kids were pretty disappointed at that. Not to worry, though, they announced that there would be candy for everyone at the plane when they had landed and set up for walk-throughs. But they were totally out when we got there a bit later. So the kids were pretty disappointed at that. After that, they weren’t much interested in the fly-bys and static displays. But Alex did get to do one of those big inflatable hamster balls in a shallow pool, which salvaged his mood at the end. Then of course, all the bathroom shopping brought it back down. But, we have the vanity, flooring, mirror, sink, hardware, faucet, tub, shower surround, towel bars, curtain rod, and all that all ready.