For as long as I can remember I have wanted to go to Traverse City Cherry Festival for no other reason then to see the airshow over the west bay. Just so happens the stars all aligned perfectly this year, I was able to go AND “my” Blue Angels were going to be there.
I have been a Blue Angels fan since I first saw them at an airshow when I was about 8 years old. As a child my father took us to an airshow at KI Sawyer airbase in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the place I call home. At that time, it was still an active military base, once a year they would have an “open house” and welcome the public into watch the airshow and check out the aircraft.
We didn’t go every year, in fact that is the only time I remember going.
It was many years later (about 30) that I got to see the Blue Angels again. When time permits I try to see them as often as I can.