787 Rollout

I know this is a seriously belated post. But if the airplane can be late to fly, can't I be late to post some pictures? We were going to use this picture for our Christmas card, but thought it might be too dorky. In the end, it didn't fit on the card, so we opted for the skiing pictures. Anyways, back to the rollout...we went backpacking in the North Cascades for the Fourth of July holiday and hemmed and hawed over whether we should go. In the ended I pushed Chris to go since he's put so many hours into working on this plane. We were pleasantly surprised, the whole operation was pretty cool. There were some glitches with parking and actually getting everyone into the factory on time (despite showing up an hour early, we were still 20 minutes late to the ceremony). There was a lot of blah blah about how great the airplane was, but when it came time to actually roll the plane out (or rather in), it gave me chills. Afterwards we were all free to walk around the airplane. We took lots of pictures and got to see a lot of people we knew. It was nice to catch up with everyone in a casual setting. The weather was really nice too. It was like a picnic, only with stale popcorn and water instead of hamburgers.

You can see my pictures in my web album:

787 Rollout