Yesterday, at the Time Out Boat Yard monthly marine flea market (first Saturday of every month), we ran into friends from DayDreamer. The kids were excited that "the KLM is coming at 1230 tomorrow". For those who don't watch YouTube, there is a tradition here in St Martin for people to go watch planes take off and land at the airport. What is normally a fairly mundane event is made video worthy because the end of the runway is directly adjacent to a nice beach. By "directly adjacent", I mean about 100 feet. Close enough that idiots stand behind the planes as they get ready to take off, and get blasted by the jet wash. I wouldn't do it, but someone absorbent and yellow might.
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I would love to show a picture of SpongeBob getting sandblasted by an outbound American Airlines flight, but, frankly, Cary the Camerawoman strategically decided to duck and cover when the wind really got up. Suffice it to say, it was more than we expected. April from Spirit of Argo had the lenses blown out of her sunglasses.
But what about all this KLM stuff? What is a KLM? KLM is a Dutch airline. On weekends, they have so many passengers coming and going from St Maarten that they use their biggest plane, a Boeing 747. Even though they lengthened the runway, the 747 still requires the pilot to use a lot of the real estate, so he has to touch down as close to the beginning of the runway as he can. Meaning he is very low when he passes over the beach. Below, all the kids are in the water as it passes overhead. The picture really doesn't do it justice. It was an experience!
Finally, it was just a great day with the other cruisers. The kids got along great. We all ended up back at Day Dreamer (just gotta luv the room on a cat) for rousing games of dominoes and UNO.
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Maya, Emma, Ginny, Anna, Jaycee, Olivia, Sarah, Cary, Kate and Love (Swedish, pronounced Loo-vay) |
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