Colorado Trip - Day #1

Dustin's mom turns 60 years old in a few days and we decided to fly out to Colorado and surprise her. She had NO IDEA we were coming. Dustin's dad and brothers of course were in on the whole thing. We had the whole first day planned out....but we hit a snag right before the plane took off...literally.

Everyone was loaded in the plane the door was closed. The flight attendants were just wrapping up the safety spiel. Then the pilot hit some button - the flight attendants stopped mid sentence and picked up the phone to talk to the pilot. Our plane had been grounded. Apparently Denver was having some really bad wind and had to limit the number of runways they had open to the point that our plane was grounded from almost 2 hours before it could take off. Hmmm...a short 1.5 hour flight now just turned into sitting on a plane for 2 hours, then a 1.5 hour flight. Sounds like fun with an almost 2 year old lap child, right? The flight attendants and the pilot did do everything they could to keep people happy. One flight attendant was showing Logan all the drawers in the serving area - she let him open them and go through them to see what was inside, she even let him sit in her jump seat! Another reason we like to fly Southwest Airlines.

Once we were finally in Denver - they weren't kidding it was really windy. We got our rental car and drove to Dustin's parents house (an hour from the airport). Dustin's mom works for the postal service and she was doing her Saturday mail delivery -- apparently they got quite a late start because the wind had impacted the delivery of the mail to the postal department as well. The plan was to have us surprise Jeanette while she was delivering the mail - and boy did we ever! We pulled up right behind her mail truck as she was filling up a mail box cluster. Dustin got out of the car and walked up to her and said, "Who do I complain to about the excessive late mail delivery?". Jeanette turned around with a fake half smile and just stared at Dustin. She didn't know what to say...she was still thinking it was one of her postal route customers getting mad at her for late mail delivery that she had no control over that day...but the guy looked like Dustin, her son. She just stood there for a few seconds and finally said - "Dustin?". He gave his mom a big hug and he told her we traveled to Colorado to help celebrate her 60th birthday. We then left her alone so she could finish her route for the day.

The boys back at Grandma and Grandpa Gray's house found lots of things to keep them busy. Logan was enjoying eating little cutie oranges.....

And playing with the phone....

We finished off the evening playing the game of "LIFE". Our nephew Korbin apparently cleaned up in the game...he beat everyone!!