July 20 - EAA AirAdventure 2015

We got up this morning around 8 even though we had planned to get on the road at that time. Since our site only had water and electric George needed to stop at the dump station first before we could leave for our next destination. We didn't have an actual address, just a street name, so I made up a number. Well I have to say, Wisconsin has traffic circles that rival New Jersey circles. There was three right in a row, on every road. Instead of traffic lights there are circles. At first we were going to go to a grocery store before we went to the EAA convention. But then we decided to go later in the MDX. EAA Stands for Experimental Aircraft Association, and we were amazed at how many campers are on location. We are in the full generator pet area. Tents are mostly in one area, then the sections are divided in to pets without generator, no pets & no generator, full generator no pets, day generator only no pets, pets & electric and electric only. There must be in the neighbor hood of at least 5,000 campers. The air convention began today, and most of the campers arrived before today. When I made reservations for the drive in dry camping I had no idea how enormous the area was going to be, and I didn't even think about coming a day earlier. Well the good thing about arriving late is if all of the vehicles, trailers & rigs it surely would be a mad house. The place is so big that they have school bus shuttles. Inside the convention they have trams pulled by tractors. We strolled around the corporate jet area including HondaJet where George and I tried out some crotch rockets as well as other motorcycles. We saw these super light weight folding chairs made out of materials they make planes from. What stopped us from buying them was the cost of $109 a chair. Went to the Ford exhibit and checked out the new Mustang and Edge. Then we went to the helicopter area. Also toured a all terrain vehicle monster truck camping thing that cost $500,000. Crazy!

Eventually 2:30 rolled around and the air show began. I took some really cool shots of the planes with my new zoom lens. We headed back to the RV before George ran out of oxygen. George sat out and watched various air planes fly over while I was tweaking a Peddlers Warehouse ad to go into Today's Shopper. Once The ad was finished, it took almost 20 minutes to connect to the Internet but it was moving so slow I gave up trying to send in to the publisher. So later tonight I will try again. Abby was in one of her nasty crazy moods, until We decided to go outside to watch the plans fly over. When we came in I played with Abby and Nutmeg with the sock monkey. Then they began to Wrestle which is very amusing as Nutmeg does her best to make Abby submit. They can wrestle for 20 minutes at a time. Tomorrow we are going to go in early and come back to the RV for lunch and then go back to the air show with our folding chairs that are still light weight, but not as light weight as the ones we saw today.