Opendagen

Every year the Royal Netherlands Air Force hosts a weekend called the "opendagen" or open days. These two days are packed with air shows from all different types of airplanes/ helicopters from air forces all over the world.

This year the open days were hosted by our home base, Gilze-Rijen. Friday morning we packed our car up and went to check out this year's events. Luckily Rob didn't have to work at the show so we made a nice family day out of it with Oma and Opa.

Max was sporting his new flight suit with Papa's badges. He even had his own name badge with wings! (What can I say, the kid has got connections! ha!)

Despite the chilly wind and rain, we sat out on the grass and enjoyed some of the shows. This year the apache helicopter showed off with its new demo. The Dutch are the only people in the world to have an apache demo, and even though helicopters can't break sound barriers, it was pretty awesome to see the apache do dives and flips just like a fixed wing!