Blue Angels

The Blue Angels are in town for Fleet Week. During the week, I caught a few glimpses of them practicing from the back yard. Some people might have laughed at my pictures.

But distance aside, it was really cool to watch them from our house.
On Saturday morning, Phil took Alex, Zachy and Mady over to Oakland airport to see if they could get a closer look at the planes.

Not only did they see the Blue Angels and Fat Albert, they had a chance to talk with some of the support personnel! And received these awesome posters.

Saturday and Sunday afternoons we returned to Oakland airport to watch the team take off and land. We could also see parts of the show in the distance. I think everyone can agree that these pictures are much better.

Fat Albert:

 Waiting for take off:

 Fat Albert coming in for landing:

Breaking formation for landing:

Mady really took a liking to Fat Albert. She was very sad when she found out that Fat Albert had to "go home" when the Blue Angels left.

Although we didn't get to see all of the tricks, it was lots of fun watching them take off and land. And we didn't have to spend the entire day trying to maintain the perfect vantage spot in the City.