WWII - Day one
Two years ago, myself (chris), my Dad, my brother Nick met up with my Dad’s best friend Norm Galvin and his son for our first “Weeny Welding” trip to the Grand Canyon. Earlier this year, we decided it was time for WWII, Weeny Welding II, and this time, we were going out to Reno Nevada for the Reno Air Races, and do some hiking around Lake Tahoe.
So yesterady my dad, brother and I flew out to Reno yesterday, and met up with Norm, his son Jay again. It was a long day of travel, and after arriving at Jay’s house, he and his wife made us a wonderful spagetti and meat ball dinner - THANK YOU JAY AND MELANIE! - then we went to bed.
This morning we got up and went to the air races. Already there had been two deaths the two days before so we were interested to see what happens today. We had pit passes, so we were able to go down and see a bunch of really cool planes, the ones that were racing. We heard some of the planes racing, so we decided to watch a bit. Just as we were walking up to the line where we could see, we noticed some dust and smoke a bit in the distance. Turns out that there was another crash. Later we found out that another person had died, when two planes collided and one man was killed instantly and the other was able to land his plane with non-fatal injuries.
  
 
The races were canceled for the rest of the day, which was a bummer, but there was still some really cool exhibitions. We saw several trickster planes, and also the Canadian Snowbird team perform, which is the Canadian version of the Thunderbirds. My favorite part was when an F-16 was putting on a show. Man, that engine is incredible and LOUD.
 
Anyway, check out the photo’s that I posted. More coming tomorrow.