We sat on the grass while watching the various planes doing their stunts. Can't even remember what the names of half of them were. Fayth got covered with thorns, we call them burs ... they're round and flat and the rounded sides are are full of pointy spikes, ideal for getting caught in the coat of a Golden Retriever. I was also glad that the tyres of my wheelchair are solid because I had a blackjack going right through my one tyre. They look almost like squashed pyramids. One long point at the top and 3 shorter points at the bottom. Don't know if you get these weeds overseas, or what you'd call them if you do.

As I was saying, the air show was awesome. There was one plane flown by a guy all the way from Russia by the name of Sobolev Valeriy (Looked up the name on a web site, link further down). The plane looked exactly like the one out of the 007 movie. The one where 007 rescues a nuke or whatever from being bombed at a terrorist "black market" ... Think the movie was "Tomorrow Never Dies".

The best part though was the Cheetah plane that flew all the way from Cape Town for the event. It flies so fast that it can break the sound barrier. So cool, watching it woosh past and then a couple heartbeats later, you hear the extra loud roar. The plane was only a few hundred meters away, so you can imagine how loud it was. The commentator warned people to cover their babies' ears.

The pilot flew past like this twice. And then flew past a third time, almost vertical. I can't describe it... He flew horizontally, like a normal plane, but the nose of the plane was pointed skyward. Awesome. He then did a touch and go before heading back to his base in Cape Town, which for him was a 40 minute flight.

Another awesome part of the display was the huge helicopter, like the one in the movies that does rescues ... it hovered right in front of us, simulating a rescue, dropping someone in a harness with a stretcher basket. And then they let off a smoke canister, which stank like crazy (know from the 2nd canister that was let off earlier for the parachute jumpers and we were down wind from it). The helicopter then returned and landed. One of the people in the back then got out and made a show of pushing the chopper back a bit before letting the guy who had jumped out earlier back in. The down draft from it as it rose back into the air was amazing. The people in front of us fell over backwards.

The same helicopter went and got water from a nearby lake. The commentator told us about how someone had phoned the the Flying Squad (of the police) to say that "a big green helicopter had stolen water from the North End lake". As he flew past the point where he intended to drop the water, the pilot had a change of heart, flew round again and dropped his 2,000 litres of water further away from the crowd.

All through the day, nothing phased Fayth out at all, except maybe the heat. She spent most of it hiding in the shade under my wheelchair, or next to us, as the sun moved over. The only thing that did bother her was when the 3 Tigers took off on the runway that was closer to the crowd than the other. The noise was extremely loud, though not as loud as when the Cheetah came past, so I'm not sure what her problem was. Maybe it was because these planes were so much larger, and there were 3 of them, rolling slowly past. Also, these planes used the closer runway than the rest of the planes did. I kept talking to her though and stroking her, so she didn't try and run away, though she did back up a few paces. 

You probably don't know what kind of planes I'm talking about. I'm wishing we actually took the camera out the car now and took photos. There are lots of pictures at this address - http://www.algoafm.com ... though there are not always titles at the bottom.

Last night was Guy Fawkes. We were at Scouts most of the evening, where Medic is an Assistant Troop Leader for the one area's Scouts. Anyway, when we got home, we found that Lady, his staffie, was a shaking wreck. She was very upset. The crackers going off had upset her and any thought of going online were thrown out the window. I took Lady in the bedroom and let her curl up under the blanket while I read a book and comforted her. Medic went out again to check on the neighbourhoods (being the conscientious paramdic that he is *S*)

And that brings us back to today, which has been extremely hot. Medic has been out working all day at some off road racing event and he'll be going out again later. Meanwhile, I've been wandering around, as hot as can be, trying to decide whether to lie in the bedroom in front of the fan, or work on my PC ...