From now on, September 2nd shall be known as Zeppelin Day.
As some of you may be aware, the worlds largest Zeppelin is in town and offering rides out of Paine Field in Everett, WA.
I run with a crowd that thinks this is extremely awesome and also devastating that tickets for rides are so expensive.
Today, in the Aurora Village Costco parking I looked up and there it was. I excitedly told Llyra to look. Then we called Sean to tell him to look. He couldn’t see it so we went to get him. Llyra had a theory that it was traveling south down the lake to downtown and would come back up along the sound so we planned to head to a park along the sound. Sean hopped in the car and off we went.
Heading towards Richmond Beach Park we crossed paths with the Zeppelin as it passed over our heads at 185th and Aurora. So we took a right and followed it up Aurora. All the while I’m sticking my head out the window to try and get pictures. We started to lose it as we had to stop for all those stoplights so we headed to I-5 and Paine Field. We saw it briefly again but then lost it as it made it’s descent.
We drove around Paine Field and just as we were about to give up, we saw it starting to take off. Llyra parked the car and we piled out like we were in a clown car. And just in time, as the Zeppelin was heading our way and flew right over us. SO COOL.
I’ll post links to the pictures when Llyra uploads them.
Then we headed over to the Paine Field Community Park which has a really neat playground with some wacky climbing structures and a really neat merry go round. I sat while Christopher dragged his parents around the playground.
And, yes, we listened to Led Zeppelin when we got back to the house.
Best quote came from Christopher, age 3, as it was starting to pull away from us: “Stay in the sky buddy!”
How awesome is it to have friends you can go on a zany, spontaneous Zeppelin quest with?
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