Have banjo, have knee, will travel...

Ok, so no banjo, but California here I come. Spent yesterday at the Indianapolis motor speedway. They have some big race there but I can't remember the name. Anyway, it was way cool.  Those Indy cars are noisy. Trying to get their picture as they zoom by at over 100 mph is a challenge. I gave E  a ration about trying to get video, lots of blur and pictures of grass. Then I tried it. Got pictures of blurry grass. So no Wide World of Sports camera work for me.

This bloggerator thingy wasn't working yesterday so I guess I need to catch up. I am here for the dedication of a WW II C-47, the military version of the DC-3, that E's dad flew in WW II over the Burma-India-China hump. It has the nose art painted on it from "Do it," his plane.

Amy in her royal wedding hat in the cockpit

It is at the Grissom Air Museum in beautiful Kokomo, Indiana. Not the middle of nowhere but you could see it from the cockpit. Really nice people, who have worked really hard to reproduce Jim Haus's plane. The family worked really hard to get Dad out there, but at 94 it was just too much for him to travel. He was well represented by all of the children, including Bob who helped paint it in "Haus gray," a new color that was produced and named, just for the event. It was a very cool event complete with a military fly over of old airplanes. I'd attach the picture but they just look like dots in the sky. Well maybe it not, here goes...

And the weather was predicted to be bad but it remained nice until after the ceremony, then it rained. Just like at the "Brickyard" where it was nice for awhile then poured. Luckily we were prepared. We had stopped at a Sporting goods store and bought rain ponchos. That we left at the hotel room. So we bought official Indy 500 rain ponchos. And boy are they sexy-

Amazing how E can look cute no matter what and I always look like a dork. "Beauty and the Dork" new from Pixar...

Here's a link about the ceremony:
C-47 dedicated for WWII pilot Jim Haus