chance encounter on Midway

I was feeling really lousy this morning. I wasn't sure why I had such a really restless feeling. I wanted an adventure and I wanted to go driving. So I convinced Amy that we should go try Krystal, the almost White Castle that opened in Addison/Carrolton a few months back. We hopped in the Mini and I had a blast zipping over to that side of the Metroplex. As we are heading up Midway, I notice that there is an SUV darting through traffic and tailing me. How dare that SUV try to keep up with the Mini, I think to myself and scoot over a lane and dlip past a few more slower vehicles. Eventually the SUV pulls alongside and it happens to be one of Amy's coworkers. Amy uses her fingers to give him her cell number and the passenger in the SUV calls. Turns out her coworker is having a Kaboomtown fireworks watching party at his airplane hanger at the Addison airport and we just got an on the road invite. What perfect timing. And thank goodness that she has a very, very distinctive car.

We continued on to Krystal and it was pretty good. I kind of liked it a little more than White Castle, but they didn't have the White Castle krinkle fries. I think I'll stick with Steak n' Shake.

After Krystal we went and killed soem time at the Willow Bend mall, drueling all over the products in the Apple Store. Then we went to target and purchased some wedding presents. We hope we got the right stuff and Target really needs to get their act together with their conflicting item numbers and names. Starbucks was the next stop for some Frappacinos before heading over to the hangar.

Amy's coworker dave has a very cool WWII style plane, actually a Russian/Chinese copy of a WWII style trainer built in the early 1980's, but it looks perfect in it's green and silver paint with D-day stripes beneath the USAF insiginia on the fuselage. he also has a super-cool grill and can throw a good tarmack cookout as their were non-stop goodies until the sun went down. The hangar is essentially right on the taxiway flightline at the Addison Airport. Prior to the airport being closed for the fireworks, a dozen or so WWII aircraft were given the run of the place, making runs in formation up and down the field. Eight T-6 texan trainers in close formation behind a C47 makes for an impressive sight and sound as it thunders overhead, seemingly low enough to clip the tops of nearby power poles. The Kaboomtown fireworks are set off from two semi-trailers parked at the south end of the runway a couple hundred feet from the hangar. Close enough that if the wind had been a little bit more from the east we would have been showered with magnesium and other burning embers. The fireworks were amazing from this vantage point and it was a great, if unexpected, way to celebrate the 4th.