July 23 - EAA AirVenture 2015 - Day 4

We both slept in today. So we got a late start. Since Abby was her old sweet and love able self last night (not), I locked her out of the bedroom. So this morning she was so happy to see us for real, wagging her tail and such, that is until I deviated from the norm and gave the dogs dry food instead of wet. She had a hissy fit and we finally had to lure her away from her empty food dish in the bathroom with jerky. Once she was out, George was too slow to shut the door and she ate the jerky and ran back in. So we had to do it again and this time it worked. I suggested through the door for him to pick up the bowl which he did and as soon as he came out she went back in but was no longer interested in staying there. Nutmeg ate her meal in the living area without a peep. So now Queen Abby was happy again and we headed off to the EAA Convention on our scooters. First thing we did was get on a tram headed North to the War Birds area. The camp reenactment that I thought just looking at it was just World War II and not Desert Storm or Korean War. The British tents were and orangish yellow in color which through me off yesterday. Then we looked at all of the planes from the various wars. They had Zeroes too which they used in their reenactment of Tora Tora Tora, but it wasn't an authentic Zero as all of them were destroyed as a result of Japan's surrender. So other planes of the time frame were modified to the Zero specifications. George wanted to see the Lincoln and the Miller Welding exhibits so while we were there we walked past a food concession and they had the deep fried white cheddar cheese curds famous in Wisconsin which he had want to try. They are similar to mozzarella sticks except they are round and taste like cheddar and they don't seem to dip them in anything. We then headed back to the RV and relaxed the rest of the afternoon. George thought he heard that there was a plane crash at the EAA today since Internet goes in an out frequently, I texted our daughter Jenn to have her look it up. Actually it happened yesterday. May have happened yesterday during the afternoon air show at one of the other runways because in the middle of the air show there were what sounded like tornado sirens that lasted for 15 minutes. I thought the peep who was operating the siren was out of sync with the show as later they blasted it again only this time it was for the reenactment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. A lady next to us at the air show told me one or two small planes crash every year there. Which actually is a small percentage considering how many planes are here. Tomorrow the game plan is to go to the ultra-lite section of the convention and then go to the 2:30 pm air show. I need to go to the EAA booth to get a show T-Shirt before we leave.