The Spirit of Goodyear

Brent and I somehow got lucky enough this weekend to take a ride on the Goodyear Blimp! It's extremely difficult to get a ride on the blimp and we were lucky enough to be offered a pair of seats on Saturday's noon lift off. There had been a last minute cancellation and it worked to our favor. Here are some pictures of us, the blimp and the view from the blimp. Brent also took a short a movie of the blimp taking back off after our ride. Our ride lasted an hour. We took off from Suffield Township at the air dock which is about 15 minutes from our house. We then flew up towards Akron and past the Goodyear buildings and the buildings of downtown Akron. The weather was perfect and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. Because it was so clear we were able to see downtown Cleveland from Akron (which is about 30 miles away). On the way back to the air dock we were able to swing close to the house and see our neighborhood. Enjoy the pictures!!

Picture descriptions: The first picture is a the blimp landing on the launch pad in front of us. Picture 2 is Goodyear park and Goodyear Lake (frozen over). Picture 3: The large brick buildings on either side of the express way are the Goodyear buildings. Brent used to work at the brick building on the far side of the express way. Right in the very middle of picture 4 is our neighborhood. Picture 5 is a view of the Goodyear Blimp Air Dock. Picture 6 is a view from inside the blimp. I think you can tell what picture 7 is. :-)