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This weekend David and Christopher came out to visit and go to the air show at Pease. The weather was perfect and we all had a great weekend.

On Thursday night I picked them up from the train station at Exeter, NH and went to the Olive Garden for dinner. Delicious!

I took a day’s vacation on Friday and we went to the Hampton Airfield Café for breakfast and then watched the aircraft take off and land. After breakfast we headed over to Pease to see if we could catch a glimpse of some aircraft arriving for the weekends air show. We were able to watch for around 5 minutes before the police started moving people on.

In the afternoon we drove up to York to see York Beach and the Nubble Light. We stayed around York for most of the afternoon before returning home for a BBQ.

On Saturday and Sunday we went to the Airshow at Pease. The weather was great and we saw a great deal of aircraft both on the ground and in the air. I was lucky enough to sit in the pilot seat of a Delta Airlines 757 as well as a KC-135, an aircraft I have seen a lot at Pease over the last couple of years. We also toured a KC-10. The air display included an F-16, F-15, F/A-18 as well as the Blue Angels and the Brazilian Air force Smoke Squadron.

Here are some pictures from the air show, with captions where possible:

F-16 Fighting Falcon

F-16 Fighting Falcon

F-16 Fighting Falcon

F-16 Fighting Falcon

F-16 Fighting Falcon

U.S. Navy Blue Angels

U.S. Navy Blue Angels flying past the tail of a Boeing 757

U.S. Navy Blue Angels

U.S. Navy Blue Angels

U.S. Navy Blue Angels

U.S. Navy Blue Angel

U.S. Navy Blue Angel

Air show crowds taking shelter from the sun underneath an A-10.

Taken onboard a KC-135 looking back towards a KC-10.

Flight controls inside a KC-135.

Flight controls inside a KC-135.

Looking out of the KC-135 towards F-15′s and F-16′s

F/A-18 Hornet

F-15 Strike Eagle

F-15 Strike Eagle

F-15 Strike Eagle

The turtles were out sunbathing again a few days ago on the wetlands near our house. We have seen them a lot this summer but on this day we saw more than usual. They are quite nervy so I had to be quick to snap some pictures of them before they noticed me and made their escape.

One of the places we returned to regularly during our stay in South Yarmouth was Bass Hole. It was undoubtedly one of the best places in the cape to see the sunset. The boardwalk extends over a marshy creek and provided fantastic views of the wetlands.

Here are some pictures I took at Bass Hole during our time in Cape Cod:

Meghan and I returned home on the Wednesday for work but the lure of spending another couple of days down in Cape Cod was too much! We drove back down on Friday night to surprise the family and spend the weekend there.

On Saturday we spent most of the day in Sandwich, the oldest town in Cape Cod.

Dexter Grist Mill. The oldest on Cape Cod:

Sandwich is famous for “Sandwich Glass”. We didn’t do the tour of the factory or see any of the glass blowing but I took this picture in the shop while I cooled off in the air conditioning!

The Sandwich Boardwalk. In 1991 Hurricane Bob destroyed the boardwalk. Individuals and businesses donated planks to rebuild the boardwalk. Each plank has the name of the person or business who donated it, some  have jokes, others a saying or memorial. The boardwalk leads to Town Neck Beach.

It was another beautiful day in Cape Cod!