Flying Home

I know I haven't blogged in awhile, but my parents decided to have a 50th Wedding Anniversary Party and were kind enough to fly Me, Mike and the kids out so we could be with them for this special occasion! Before leaving I was busy with all the arrangements and this is the first chance I have had to try to update since school starting.

The kids were very excited about flying, it has been a long time since we have flown =)

The kids had to miss a week of school and so they had homework and projects they worked on while we were away. This is a picture with Leo the monkey. He was a special guest from Ryan's class. When we got home we put together a few pages in Leo's scrapbook with pictures of Leo and notes about what he saw and did with us. It was not easy to always "remember the monkey". Unfortunately he got left behind on many of the cool little adventures we had . . . he was there, jut not in the picture.

We had the joy of flying from Tulsa to Atlanta (2 hours) then fly Atlanta to Seattle (5 hours) On the longer flight in the really big airplane (Ryan says it was a 767) the pilots greeted us and on seeing Ryan's Boeing shirt they promptly sat both kids in the cockpit and even put their pilot hats on them =) What a great start to an awesome trip=)

We let Ryan practice taking a picture (he did a pretty good job)

So of course Amber wanted to take a picture too. I think they both have it down. I thought it was funny because I didn't know that Ryan snuck into this shot. I thought it was just me and Mike.

The kids did great on the planes coming and going (even with a mechanical and switch in planes on our last flight very late on Sunday 9/14. We didn't get to bed until 1:30am, but no worries, the kids made it to school the next day . . . .ugh
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The food was lacking, but entertainment has definitely improved =)