Fly-In Breakfast

There's a small airstrip just 2 blocks away from our house, and the boys love seeing planes overhead as they take off or land. Then we found out that the airstrip was holding a fly-in pancake breakfast, and we wrote it on the calendar in ink. The morning dawned, beautiful but chilly, and we headed over, pulling the boys in the wagon. 

Despite the looks on their faces, they were excited about going.

 First, we ate pancakes, sausage, and eggs.

We walked the length of the runway, admiring all of the planes that had flown in. Planes were landing, taking off, and buzzing the runway, while we walked, thrilling the boys and many other people.

It's not often that Thomas stands still. He was mesmerized by these planes!

 What a neat little red plane, complete with eyes!

 There were helicopters taking off and landing, as well. This one was stationary.

TJ took our picture in front of this neat plane.

As much as TJ loved the planes, gators were the highlight of the morning for him. A local company that sells gators had brought some for demo rides, and we took one. They were also giving away two toy gators. TJ won! You can see it under his arm in the photo below. He calls it his gator-rator and it was all he could talk about for a week or so. Then, to top it off, the real gator gave us a ride back to our house!

It was such a cool morning! We will definitely go back next summer.