One of our highlights this month was having Ross and Amber visit us for a few days. We didn't offer them too much excitement, but it was fun to hang out, relax, and laugh with good friends.
They got to take part in family day here for Matt's flight class, so we all got to see him fly. It seems like a lot of the people Matt and I had met when we got down here all happened to be in Matt's class, so we got to hang out with them and their families too that day.
Matt flying in:
Getting out / ready to fuel up:
I got to go up in the air traffic control tower and give Matt permission for take-off over the radio.
Scary -- can you imagine the two of us flying? At least the pilot in command sits on the right :)
Had to get a shot in the aviators...
Ross and Amber were troopers -- they survived two nights of a faulty air mattress and made the mighty trek back to Iowa in one LONG day.... (thanks, guys!)
We've had a few other but not so welcome guests lately too. If any of you were in the suites freshman year at ISU, you may remember some really annoying and unnecessary fire alarms going off intermittently throughout the night over the course of a week or two.... We'd all have to get up, pull our coats on, and make the trip down the stairs, outside, and wait unknowingly until we got the go-ahead to go back to sleep. That's what this week's tornado sirens have reminded me of. There have been a few of them, accompanied by heavy storms / rain. Fortunately nothing has come too close to us, but a tornado did touch down at one of the airfields on post. We've had some broken sleep and I've found myself fairly accustomed to grabbing a comforter, some pillows, the laptop, and heading to the bathroom with the dogs. One morning we had the whole family in the bathtub and our little make-shift bed was surprisingly comfortable. We wait for the "nee-ner-nee-ner" siren as I call it (tone on post to let us know we're clear), and head back to bed. Anyways, unlike Ross & Amber, these visitors have overstayed their welcome!
2 comments:
too bad about the sleepless nights, i'm glad you guys are being safe and taking cover though. i wish i didn't sleep through tornado sirens. it really concerns travis. he slept through the last one too!
Haha! The image in my head of all four of you in the bathtub made me laugh pretty hard! I bet Chaz just loved the sirens. We had a great time in Alabama. Hopefully you move closer to Iowa when you relocate! :) :)
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