present, but we ALL know Dave doesn't like to/can't keep secrets so he brought it home with him this weekend. It was a toy/remote control helicopter that we had found on our shopping trip a few weeks ago when we were in Birmingham. We had gone into Brookstone just to look around, maybe rest for a minute or two (because their massage chairs are WONDERFUL) and ended up coming out with TWO toy helicopters. Dave was SOO happy. I think if he could've taken that thing out of the box and played with it while we were walking through the mall he would've. So anyway, once Mr. Mike opened the box and realized Dave, too, had a helicopter, they spent the better half of the poor things battery life flying them around the living room. They would swoop and dive, crash and take off again... You would've thought it was Christmas morning
and these two had gotten the BEST present EVER from Santa! After hearing these helicopters drop from six feet in the air, Dave usually replied with, "Oh, no worries. I bought an extended two year warranty. If they break we'll just get us some new ones!" After all that was established, they talked about setting the "trim" (I don't really know what that means) and how to go about keeping the thing in the air. It was pretty amusing to sit and watch the two of them fly toy helicopters around. Sandye said that Mike would end up painting stripes down his or something in order to tell them apart - BUT, if you looked closely, you could tell which one was Dave's... It was all scratched up and he had already busted the headlights out! BOY OH BOY...Saturday got kicked off with a trip to the local barber's shop for Dave to get a haircut. I wish I could add a picture here, but I was so overwhelmed that it took us an hour and a half for him to get his hair cut, I didn't exactly think of taking a picture. We came home from our little "beetle" escapade to Jana and Sandye playing around. We all later went out to the airport to go for a plane ride.
Mike made Dave manually pull the plane out of the hanger and walk it all the way out to the pump! Boy did he break a sweat on that walk- ha! After we got the plane gassed up I managed to find a bollard to prop my camera up on to get a picture of ALL of us on our adventure. This was going to be MY first time up in a small plane and Jana had decided that she wanted to try to fly for the first time, so I knew I HAD to document the day! Mike's plane is the one in the background and I was so excited to find that it was in the picture. 
That was TOTALLY not planned but turned out quite well I think. So, as we gathered headsets and got in position, Dave and I sat in the back while Jana and Mike were up front. It was interesting to be able to hear all the correspondence with the tower... Although I'm not sure I dig that part of flying. I think I like my SMALL little window and the partition that is between me and the instruments up front. Whatever my feelings, Jana was pumped about being up front and was ready to fly. So, as Dave and I sat in the back, we enjoyed looking over the Weiss Lake and Rome, finding our hangouts on the lake along with the brick house the Ashley's call home! While on our way back to the airport we were about to go over some mountains and Mike told us it was about to get bumpy.
Jana hadn't flown the plane yet and Mike told her that we were getting too close to wait so she took control. Immediately the nose of the airplane went UP. Needless to say that scared the CRAP out of me. All and all it was a wonderful experience! We came home to a wonderful dinner and even more exciting - COMPANY! Ninnie and Jeri graced us with their presence for dinner and what a fabulous time we had. Thanks to everyone for an incredible weekend :)
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