{"id":28,"date":"2004-08-15T23:58:39","date_gmt":"2004-08-16T07:58:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:40","slug":"seafair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2004\/08\/seafair","title":{"rendered":"Jets, Hydroplanes, and Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first weekend of August is a great time to come to Seattle. Not only is it sunny and beautiful, but the city also plays host to Seafair Weekend; an annual outdoor festival featuring two days of airshows by the Blue Angels, unlimited hydroplane races, and a big old floating boat party on Lake Washington. This year&#8217;s waterborne festivities resembled New Orleans during Mardi Gras more than any other year I can remember. Think beads. Lots of beads. I didn&#8217;t see one indecent exposure ticket getting written though, so perhaps Seattle cops have lightened up a little.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I was planning on having a bunch of photos to post, but unfortunately I forgot to charge the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pentaxusa.com\/products\/cameras\/camera_overview.cfm?productid=18263\" target=\"_blank\">Optio S<\/a> and it ran out of batteries right after the Blue Angels show was over. Below are ten photos from the airshow:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"galleryphoto\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/galleries\/2004-08-seafair\/spaceneedle.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"gallerynav\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"gallerydesc\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n\r\n<script language=\"javascript\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n<!--\r\n\r\nphoto1 = ['spaceneedle.jpg','Two Blue Angels buzz by the Space Needle during the Saturday show.'];\r\nphoto2 = ['bird.jpg','A bird attempts to join the formation.'];\r\nphoto3 = ['crossing.jpg','One of many cross patterns during the Sunday show.'];\r\nphoto4 = ['elliotbay.jpg','Before the show on Saturday, the Angels fly over almost every neighborhood around Seattle. Here, they buzz my neighborhood.'];\r\nphoto5 = ['fourbogeys.jpg','Four bogeys over downtown.'];\r\nphoto6 = ['moon.jpg','\"Fat Albert\", the Blue Angels&rsquo; escort plane, banks hard left before diving over the lake.'];\r\nphoto7 = ['skyarc.jpg','A wide angle view of the full fleet doing an arc over downtown.'];\r\nphoto8 = ['closeup.jpg','If you look closely, you can see Tom Cruise flipping Val Kilmer the bird.'];\r\nphoto9 = ['splitoff.jpg','After shooting hundreds of vertical feet straight up, the fleet splits off for more dives.'];\r\nphoto10 = ['funnel.jpg','After the Blue Angels show was over, the serious entertainment could begin.'];\r\nphotos = 10;\r\n\r\nloadPhoto(1);\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first weekend of August is a great time to come to Seattle. Not only is it sunny and beautiful, but the city also plays host to Seafair Weekend; an annual outdoor festival featuring two days of airshows by the Blue Angels, unlimited hydroplane races, and a big old floating boat party on Lake Washington. This year&#8217;s waterborne festivities resembled New Orleans during Mardi Gras more than any other year I can remember. Think beads. Lots of beads. I didn&#8217;t see one indecent exposure ticket getting written though, so perhaps Seattle cops have lightened up a little.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I was planning on having a bunch of photos to post, but unfortunately I forgot to charge the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pentaxusa.com\/products\/cameras\/camera_overview.cfm?productid=18263\" target=\"_blank\">Optio S<\/a> and it ran out of batteries right after the Blue Angels show was over. Below are ten photos from the airshow:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-galleries","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}