While the Wife's Away

Life in Holyoke, MA is not very exciting, so you have to jump on those rare opportunities to have some fun when they present themselves (more posts in store!).  A couple of weekends after E&E went to Utah there was an air show in the nearby town of Westfield.  I convinced my classmate/roommate Henry to go with me so we checked it out.

Henry and I chilling with one of the sponsors.

The traffic there was really bad.  A 20 minute drive ended up taking 2 hours, but we caught some of the entertainment as we got close.

If you click to zoom in to get a better view of the jet you may also

notice the line of traffic going around the curve in the road.

Here I am with various aircraft:

Another one of the sponsors was Jeep.  They had a road course and an off-road course that you could test drive various Jeep brand vehicles on.  

I've always been a fan of the Cherokee so I drove it on both courses.  They had to tell me to slow down a couple of times on the off road track.  Maybe it wasn't the best place to live my dream to be a stunt car driver.

They didn't let me drive this though. 

Or this jet powered bus that went over 300 mph!

Due to our fears of exiting traffic we bailed before the Air Force Thunder Birds took flight but all in all it was a good time.