The Festival of Flight

Most of the activities we participate in are found out just by chance. One morning, after dropping Tyler off at work, I was driving the kids to the aquarium and noticed a billboard that was advertising the Festival of Flight. Luckily I was in tons of traffic so I had plenty of time to read the info. Also the festival was to be held at the Long Beach airport which we are very familiar with around here, and it is free so double bonus.

The festival has booths, food trucks, music and tons of airplanes to check out. Most of the airplanes had a not touch policy but a couple were letting people have a seat.

 Ted was filmed giving a thumbs up in this plane when it was his turn to have a seat. I have no idea what he was filming for but it was still cool.

 Ted also got to sit in a police helicopter.

 We all sat in the luxery helicopter that you can pay a couple hundred dollars to get a ride in to Catalina Island. Tyler and I discussed investing in our own one of these. ;) It was so comfy.  

 It's Bulldog from Planes! :)

 This giant plane behind Tidus is a medical plane or something. There was a line that stretched around the world so take a walk through it so we passed on that.

 Ted has become quite the big brother in the past week. He is always helped Tidus, holding his hand, and making sure he is taken care of. Ted also still sits on Tidus and shoves him over so... basically they are brothers.

 Tidus LOVED pointing out all the planes and helicopters that were flying overhead. I think he was more into the planes in the air than the ones on the ground.

The festival even had a bounce house for free. So that was our last stop. In total were at the festival for a little over an hour. We arrived right when it started which was smart because it was starting to get more and more crowded. Plus the clouds were burning off in the sky so it was also getting hot outside. It was a lot of fun! The perfect activity family Saturday activity :)