Last weekend my parents came into town for a quick 24 hours to visit and attend Gulfstream Family Day. I love seeing my parents! We had such a wonderful time! Too bad the visit was so short though.
If you didn't know, Gulfstream is the company Miguel works for. They build private jets. You've heard rappers sing about the G5 and G6 in songs. Gulfstream Family Day is actually a really large event. They sell tickets to the fair-like grounds and open tours of their factories and hangers. It was so fun to go around and see how the planes are built and constructed. There aren't any pictures of that though, they weren't allowed. Unlike the Boeing tour, Gulfstream actually lets you down on the floor and we were able to get up close and even touch some things. It always amazes me how big the planes actually are. Especially their newest plane the G650 (pictured below, the all green one)! My mom decided that that is the plane she would choose. Passengers can control settings and everything with their iPhones or iPads. Too bad each plane cost over $40 million and there is a waiting list till 2014. ;)
We opted out of doing the fair games and rides and left after we did four tours to go get some food. I learned so much and it made me so proud of everything that Miguel does! It is amazing to see something built that Miguel has actually engineered and designed! So cool!
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| Typical. They just couldn't pose normally. =) |
Oh, and I just have to post this scary spider we passed during the day. The phone is up there so you can get a good sense of scale. Spiders that large should only live in the Amazon or something. Eeeeek!
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