Well, if we haven't talked to you and/or you weren't on Facebook Saturday, you missed a lot of excitment this weekend. Saturday was the Edwards Air Force Base Air Show and Open House. Of course, we were there...and we got there early enough to hear General Yeager break the sound barrier to start the show. It took us about 2 hours to get to the base and parked, though. We took a different route than most because Rosamond boulevard was backed up all the way onto the highway. It was a little crazy. So we finally arrived and started engaging in festivities somewhere around 10.

One thing that has and still is taking a little time to get used to is the fact that it is the middle of October and highs are still in the 90's. Granted, it's cooler than a couple months ago when highs were in the 100's. Regardless, we packed water bottles and sunscreen and made a go of it.

The show was a lot of fun. It's always fun to see Adam get excited about things, and this is obviously his cup of tea. He took a lot of pictures and we walked through a lot of cool planes. I think his favorite was the WWII plane. We also ran into his friend Keith and sat with him and his family to watch the majority of the show. The show was officially over at 4, and shortly after, we headed back to the parking lot (also known as the dry lake bed). We decided to go by foot on the 1.4 mile walking path to kill time and let some other people leave. Once we got back to the car, we decided just to camp out on our lawn chairs while others fought to leave. After realizing that the cars around us had moved about 200 feet in over an hour, we decided to just wait it out. Some of those cars even had their cars off and made the passengers push to save gas. In the meantime, we were entertained by the pessimism of a person who's car was grid locked in line near our still parked car. We gave him all sorts of reasons to be less pessimistic...there could be an accident holding up traffic, there's only so many ways off base and tons of cars, you could've guessed when you came that it might be hard to get all the cars off when it took so long to get on, etc. He decided to stick with the fact that he thinks the Air Force is unorganized and uneffective because they were risking civilians lives by having so many of them unable to get off base. Whatever.

By 7:30 or 8, we decided to make a go of getting off and out of base. We ALMOST made it before the car started sputtering and breaking down. Adam did what his dad would do (as Adam put it) and poured more transmission fluid in hoping to at least make it outside the gate. This we did, slowly and with emergency lights on, and then called the tow truck. The tow truck picked us up and drove us and the car to the Ford dealer (he offered to just take us to Rosamond and fill out our paperwork for us...but I wasn't so keen on that idea). Of course, the truck seemed to be having the same symptoms that the car was having...and there was no seat belt for Adam, so the ride was something less than relaxing. Once we and the car were dropped off, Sandra gave us a lift home.

Our friends Elizabeth and Kevin are awesome and loaned us their extra car for the time being, and we're waiting on the diagnosis from the dealer, but so far, it seems like they think it might be less severe than we thought, which is good...less severe, actually, by thousands of dollars. We'll see what the final diagnosis ends up being.

So yesterday, we, thanks to Kevin and Elizabeth, made it to church and sunday school, went to the mall, took care of some recycling and grocery shopping, and relaxed for the rest of the evening.

This week will be mostly the same as usual...minus the fact that super early Friday morning we'll be heading to LAX to visit Illinois!!! I'm really excited about seeing familiar faces and spending time with friends. Sometimes I forget how far we are from Illinois, and I'm hoping this visit doesn't set in more homesickness, but I'll be happy to have a vacation with Adam to see all of you, if not just a short one.

Also, because many people have asked me to remind them, the Extreme Makeover Home Edition that the Montgomery's (the family from our Church in Champaign) are on is THIS SUNDAY at 7 central. Watch it :)...