Jets, Hydroplanes, and Beer

August 15th, 2004

The first weekend of August is a great time to come to Seattle. Not only is it sunny and beautiful, but the city also plays host to Seafair Weekend; an annual outdoor festival featuring two days of airshows by the Blue Angels, unlimited hydroplane races, and a big old floating boat party on Lake Washington. This year’s waterborne festivities resembled New Orleans during Mardi Gras more than any other year I can remember. Think beads. Lots of beads. I didn’t see one indecent exposure ticket getting written though, so perhaps Seattle cops have lightened up a little.

Anyway, I was planning on having a bunch of photos to post, but unfortunately I forgot to charge the Optio S and it ran out of batteries right after the Blue Angels show was over. Below are ten photos from the airshow:

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6 Responses:

  1. Adam says:

    Mike, you should put an anchor tag above the image so the page doesn’t jump to the top everytime you click a link.

    I really enjoyed my brief stay in Seattle a couple years back. Didn’t actually get to see much other than the inside of a hotel room, but it was a really nice hotel room.

    #1 - August 16th, 2004 at 8:13 am
  2. Mike D. says:

    Thanks for the heads-up Adam… I forget the “return false”. Fixed!

    #2 - August 16th, 2004 at 8:59 am
  3. Seth Thomas Rasmussen says:

    It’s kinda weird that all the links get marked as visited when I haven’t visited them yet… I understand why that happens, and I’m not sure how you’d change it, nor if it is even worth changing, but just an observation!

    #3 - August 16th, 2004 at 10:59 am
  4. Mike D. says:

    Thanks Seth. That is now fixed as well. I need to remember to test in non-Safari browsers!

    I just added a question mark to the href and it’s all good now. Now none of the links show up as visited, which is the desired behavior.

    #4 - August 16th, 2004 at 11:55 am
  5. Bolan says:

    Mike, you should put an anchor tag above the image so the page doesn’t jump to the top everytime you click a link.

    #5 - December 11th, 2005 at 1:26 pm
  6. Brandie says:

    I LOVE how you give the Reader a choice of Font & Size -AWESOME!

    #6 - September 21st, 2006 at 8:08 pm

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