Peoria Chiefs Flyover

While the Riggs cousins and Jason's parents were in town, we went to the home-opener of the Peoria Chiefs baseball game. The Chiefs are a minor league affiliate of the Chicago Cubs. The coolest part of the game was a C-130 (Herk) flyover, by Jason of course!

So here's the deal: apparently the National Anthem takes an average of 1 minute and 40 seconds. The group singing at the home-opener was an elementary choir and they had practiced the anthem at a minute and 28 seconds. So, Jason and our friend, Scott (the Aircraft Commander or AC) practiced for 1:28. Well, nerves must have taken over because the kids sang it in less than 50 seconds. There's not a whole lot a C-130 can do to make up that kind of time, so the fly-over itself was a bit delayed. I had my video camera ready, but I started getting impatient waiting for it to happen. Once it finally happened, I wasn't ready and caught just the tail end of it. Still a really cool video.

If you listen carefully, you can hear Jaxon and his friend, Ali (whose dad was the AC) shouting back and forth: "That's MY Daddy!" "That's MY Daddy!" "Hi Daddy!"