Free Ride

My mom taught me that nothing's free in this life. Which I appreciate, because it taught me how to work hard for things that I really want. But this once, I did get a free ride. We drove to Cedar City for my nephew's birthday. There was a fly-in breakfast that day, which was perfect, since he loves planes! He was so excited, he wore his pilot outfit. They had lots of cool planes on display and they were doing plane rides for $15 pp. Siena had worked hard the 2 weeks leading up to it to earn her plane ride. These were tiny 3-seat passenger planes. Siena wanted to ride with Jairus, the birthday boy, and they needed an adult to go with them (Jairus' dad). That made 3. Tessa was sad that she wouldn't be able to fly too. We waited about an hour for Siena's turn to get on the plane. When she was next in line, I got a phone call, with someone informing me that I had just won the drawing for a free airplane ride! I was FLOORED! I didn't even know I was in the drawing! (My amazing sister put my name in for me!) They told me I could go and bring a couple of kids too! AS you can tell from teh pictures, Tessa was pretty excited too!
The pilot was so nice, he let me completely take the controls at one point and showed me how to make the plane go up and down, which I did for a minute before I got totally freaked out, lol! He even let Jairus sit in the pilot seat for a picture.It turns out, I wasn't the only one who got a picture of Jairus that day. He got his picture in the local newspaper! Have I mentioned how much I love Cedar City? How cool that they would do a story on him for his birthday! What a great momento!

Tessa getting in "our" plane

So excited for take-off, I think we both went a little cross-eyed, lol!

In safe hands with Pilot Jairus

The Famous Jairus

SUU and Cedar City, my aerial view