Flugtag...

3 days after my birthday, Kellie finally gave me permission to celebrate. So we went to flugtag to see all the human powered flying machines. Most of which fly about as well as a large rock.

Here's the record flight, so you can see what the goal is:


And here is an ad showing what usually happens:


We took a shuttle over to Camden from Independence Hall to see this, which wasn't the best idea. Here's what our ride over in the shuttle looked like. There were so many people:


Shane and Ashton came down after us and actually got to the place before us. Then it took forever to find them amongst the 85000 people there. Tess was very happy to have found them, but she was a bit wiped out.


Nothing a little Red Bull can't fix! Having her first one ever:


Because we were so late getting there, we never had a good view of the barge where the flying machines take off. So after it ended and people cleared out, we went down to the riverfront to see things up close. This is the crew pulling some of the last remains of a craft out of the water:


Us with Philly behind us. Notice Tess still won't give up her Red Bull:




Instead of taking the shuttle back to Independence Hall, we decided to walk back over the Ben Franklin Bridge.


It was a long walk, and we stopped every now and then to take more pictures. Some crazy ladies on the bridge:


Standing on the bridge looking at nasty New Jersey on the left and Philly on the right.



PS-we didn't really let Tess drink the Red Bull. We told her she would have to wait til she was at least 3 before she could have that strong of a drink.