Winter brings the season of air shows — any festive occasion is a reason to send the jets flying into the sky. We live near the airport where they take off and land and school is about a block and a half from where they perform so we’ve been hearing them practice all week as they get ready for the Red Bull air races that are taking place today and tomorrow.
This is the “half time show” and we’re used to their hearts, circles and loops all in UAE’s national colors, but we still are mesmerized as the figures form in the air and then float away, blanketing the city in colored fog. Josh and I are spending the night in a hotel downtown with a perfect view of the airplanes as they soar high and low — a happy coincidence that it lined up with his birthday weekend.