Bridge Day 2011 (Part 2)

I just can't get over how much fun Bridge Day was this year. Here are some more pictures from the day. I better just make a Muvee, because there are too many good pictures. From the lower bridge, yes those are jumpers.

That is about as zoomed in as the iPhone will do. Pretty cool pictures, low quality, but cool.

Here is a picture of Andrew and Isaac on the lower bridge. They were having so much fun playing and watching that it was hard to get them to hold still long enough to get a picture.

Here is a little daddy daughter picture. Happy happy.

We always like to stop at the waterfall near Galley Bridge. It was flowing pretty good. There were so many people there that they had a cop at the entrance guiding traffic in and out of the parking lot. We lucked out and got right in.

Bridge Day 2011 (Part 1)

Bridge Day was FANTASTIC this year. Weather was cool, dry, and warmed up later in the day. Isaac invited his friend Andrew. (He is WAY into Dragon Ball Z too). After starting out a little late and about wrecking on the way, we marched across the bridge (with a meat-sickle in hand) to the east side of the bridge.

Here are the three kids near the base of the bridge on the east side. Yep, those beanies were keeping the ears warm. Lexy must have had 100 people tell her that they liked her hat.

Red Bull was a big sponsor this year. They had stuff all over the place. This little 2 ton truck with speakers, and DJ, flat screens, video game consoles, etc. was a big hit and provided music for the entire east side of the bridge.

So we go a major hook up this year. Mr V got us onto the catwalk under the bridge deck. WOW AWESOME AMAZING COOL EPIC, I can't find enough adjectives to describe how neat it was under there. Lexy is the youngest person to walk the catwalk under the business that runs the tour. This picture is all three of us with our harnesses on ready to go. (Andrew was not comfortable with the height, so he didn't go)

This is the view from the catwalk on one of the BASE jumpers. It was fun, we didn't know when someone was going to jump, we just watched for falling bodies. If you bounce over to my YouTube I have uploaded 3 videos from under the bridge.

This picture is from the east gates. As you can see a few people showed up. We heard that it got so crowed on the middle of the bridge that nobody could move, so the police had to let people over the wall to walk around.

And More Bridge Day 2009

Here is a quick video of our, first ever, trip to Bridge Day.

We all had fun in the cold. Lexy was bundled up like a little cocoon. Isaac was wanting to find a parachute and do the jump. And Amy was... you guessed it studying as we walked around. She ran into the MSU CRNA program director there. It was pretty funny when she pull out her study notes and then said, "Hey Becky, how are ya..?"

BRIDGE DAY

We made it to Bridge Day yesterday, October 17th. There was a little bit of everything there. BASE jumpers, rapelers, zip liners, whitewater rafters, vendors, on and on.

So, if you are not familiar with BASE jumping it is when someone jumps off an object with a parachute. Building, Antenna, Span, or Earth. Isaac is quite interested in it because Travis Pastrana does a lot of BASE jumping. He got up on the ledge and thought about it... but without a chute he stepped back down.

Looking down from the bridge.

Isaac took this sweet picture of some guy as he did a back flip off the bridge.It was pretty cold (upper 30's) on the bridge. Lexy was bundled into a cacoon in the stroller trying to keep warm.
Momma Jo and Isaac in the cold rain, waiting for the bus.

Dad and Lexy enjoying the cold rain on the bridge.

More to follow...