In this small town of Manitowoc that we now call home, an airport exists right in our back yard. The airport activity isn't bustling so the airport doesn't cause us much disturbance but once a year they have an air show that brings in activity from all over Wisconsin and this year, even from St. Louis, MO!

Although the planes weren't exactly quiet, the view of the air show from our front yard was spectacular. No need to fight the crowds, hover over port-a-johns or pay for over priced food...just pull up a lawn chair in your yard and retreat to the comfort of your home whenever there is a lull in activity.

I am pretty sure all this air show activity is where Roman's infatuation with airplanes has begun. One nephew loved roller coasters, one sky scrapers, one the Civil War, one trains and we will see if Roman truly fills the airplane void and makes that his new passion. In the meantime I am at the library scooping up all the picture books and DVDs I can find of airplanes. The one book we have had in our home for 2 days and he has about worn out the pages looking at it over and over and over again. My new quest is to start locating nearby air shows that we can take Roman to over the summer. This may just be a fleeting passion, but for now we are having fun watching his interest grow and we are learning more about planes than we ever imagined in the process.

This plane below was SO fast that capturing a decent picture was so difficult. But it was impressive to watch.

The stealth bomber flew in from St. Louis for this show- did a quick fly over as it had 2 other air shows to attend. Always the popular one !!

The air show opened with the stealth bomber at noon. We were all outside waiting for the planes to start when Roman started saying "airpane, airpane" and I didn't respond right away b/c I heard nothing, and as he continued to rant about "airpanes" I turned around to see the Stealth right over us. Sneaky plane and very smart boy!!














I personally found it slightly disturbing that the parachutes were riddled with holes...but I guess they got the job done!
Since we had the liberty of watching the show from our front yard...the neighbors pulled out a slip and slide for the kids on this unseasonably 85 degree day!

Roman kept asking for his "towoll" after his turn down the slip and slide his skinny little self gets cold easily.
Below are just some photos from me experimenting with my camera during the lulls in the air show.

We have a resident frog pond...Roman calls them "toads"! The pond is riddled with frogs that really don't mind you coming up to say hello.


Maggie sweating it out in the heat during the show. she was just happy to be around people and FOOD!

Well it seems we may have more air shows in our future if Roman's interest in "airpanes" continues to grow.