Thursday, June 18, 2009

Dylan's First Flight

We have an AWESOME home teacher who works on planes and plans on becoming a military pilot. He's been flying for quite awhile and offered to take us up in a small plane with him sometime. Of course my spontaneous husband jumped at the opportunity and Dylan was thrilled as well. I decided since there was only room for 4, that I would stay on the ground with Preston. Dylan invited his cousin, Tony, to go so he wouldn't be sitting alone in the backseat of the plane. The weather has been so crazy that they had to reschedule a couple of times, but they finally found an afternoon that would work - in the middle of two storms. They ended up coming back a little sooner than they had planned when they got word of a storm coming in, but they had a really good ride before that happened. Dylan was so excited and Marcos even got to take a turn flying the plane. CRAZY! At one point, Jeff (the pilot) took them up really high and then let's the plane go and you feel like you're floating. That made Dylan a little nervous, but other than that he did great. Preston and I ended up running all the errands I hadn't been able to get around to that week - poor kid doesn't know what he was missing. The guys all went to dinner afterwards and then headed back home. When they got back, they informed me they're already planning their next flight. What an awesome experience for all of them! Thanks Jeff!






4 comments:

Hagberg Fam said...

How fun!!

Juannaelmi said...

I am so jealous! What an awesome thing for them to get to do!

chrisandlaura96 said...

What an amazing experience! I'm sure he loved it and I bet he hasn't quit talking about it yet. That was really neat of your friend to take Dylan up.
-Laura

Lisa said...

That's awesome! I love those aerial photos.