This weekend was Fleet Week in San Francisco. It was also the Final of the America’s Cup World Series.
While skippers navigated the Pacific waters, Madonna rehearsed her tunes for her evening performance in San Jose, and heart-throb Justin Bieber practiced giving teen girls liver shivers for his show at the Oracle Arena in Oakland. The Giants played their first game as division champs, the 49ers had a game as well, and there was even a Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park.
San Francisco was hopping!
But nothing tops the Blue Angels show. 
I missed seeing the Delta formation, the diamond roll, the Fleur de Lis and the many other heart-in-your-throat maneuvers, but I’m happy anyway. I had my private showing at Baker Beach while I organized a picnic. While grilling salmon and keeping the tablecloths from blowing away in the wind, I was serenaded with supersonic booms from those blue and yellow F/A-18 Hornets. They were so low I could see the pilots screaming their way across the Pacific, over the Golden Gate Bridge, and then disappear into a fog bank only to return a few minutes later and do it all over again.
They practiced right in front of me. I waved. I clapped. I ran after them. “Take me with you!” I yelled.
The tablecloths took flight. The salmon got charred. The nude sunbathers flipped over.
Another roar and soar across the ocean.
This time was the last, and the gulls returned to the beach.
I came back to tablecloths wrapped around tree trunks, crispy salmon, and potato salad with a new crunch from the sand.
Calvin says, “You hate heights. You’d white knuckle it with your eyes closed. Now me, I would bay my way across the city and fog up the windshield.” 
Calvin & Bloggie 