Camp Mabry Open House

Camp Mabry (home to the TX Air, Army and State National Guards) had its annual open house over the weekend.  Whenever we drive by we always comment that we should take the kids one weekend.  They have jet fighters on display that you can see from the highway and the kids always love to see them when we pass by.  So we headed out Sunday morning and got there pretty early (around 10:30am or so).  We saw that they had some cool demonstrations scheduled for noon that we wanted to see.  When we got there they had the a few things for the kids.  A bounce house, very small petting zoo, and pony rides.  They all cost money.  The bounce house was $3.  The pony ride was $5.  I have no problem paying money for stuff like this, but I just thought that the money would go to some sort of good cause.  Nope.  Paying $3 for Isabel to sit and stare at the tractor ride (which I said we couldn't go on) inside the bounce house irritated me.  What a rip off.  Like I said, if the money was going to some sort of good cause and not just the random company they contracted the stuff to I would have been happy to let Isabel sulk inside the bounce house.

Logan in the bounce house.

Isabel absolutely thrilled to be on a pony.

Wishing we would fork over the $ to let her ride the stupid train.

We hit up the helicopters they had set up.  It was so fun to watch the kids (especially Logan) freak out about going into them.  While we were walking across the parade ground the DPS helicopter almost landed on top of me.  Very literally.  They don't give you much warning in Texas.  You're on your own to get the eff out of the way!  The officer landed and then let the kids climb all over the thing.  No warnings, no signs, nothing.  It was awesome!  He was taking up the parachuters for their demo a couple of hours later and had hundreds of little kids pulling on every control.  I was like 'uh, I hope you triple check all of the controls before you go!'  He was like 'oh, they can't do too much damage.'  Ha!

Woohoo!

Watching the helicopter land.

Logan looks a little worried!

Joy!

After climbing around it was time for lunch and to grab a spot on the ground to get ready for the demo!

They were apprehending the bad guy in the red truck.

Someone was injured so they sent out the medical flare.

Lifting the injured guy to safety.

It was a fun few hours.  Nothing but the usual going on this week.

Edited to add:  We did the garage sale bright and early Saturday morning.  It was a bust.  Unfortunately none of our immediate neighbors participated like they had in years past and people didn't stop unless they saw something catch their eye.  Since we didn't have much furniture hardly anyone stopped.  We made enough cash to buy dinner out, but that was about it.  At least we cleared out some closets and filled up the truck to make a Goodwill run.  I'm still going to try and sell a few things on Craig's list.