Cause' I'm leaving on a jet plane........

Don't know when I'll be back again!! Seriously - I was quite an adventure. Porter and Dillon FINALLY (after 3 long months) picked up the plane on Wednesday - from when it exploded at 38,000 feet! So Porter calls me Wednesday night at 5 pm from the SL airport -and tells me they have to turn around and go right back to Colorado because they need a computer fixed - and asks me to come with him and spend the night in Colorado. Sounds like fun right? So I call my mom - and she is such a good mom - and she agrees to tend my kids and get them to school the next morning! So I hurry and shower, get ready ( I was still in my gym clothes), pack for 3 kids, pack for Porter and I and leave by about 6:30!!! I finally make it to the airport - we take off and are in Colorado about 20 minutes later! We had a fun night.....until we tried to leave the next morning!!!!

This is Nicole (Dillon's girlfriend) and I in the plane just before we took off!!! Here is Captain Porter and Captain Dillon -where they are most happy!!!
The Lear at night in Colorado when we landed.
Here is Nicole and I again the next morning before we took off!
Here is a good picture of the Lear - if anyone hasn't ever seen it! It has 2 new engines, a new paint job, new carpet, and I'm sure about ever other part is new because there was so much damage! It's a pretty sweet plane! You feel like a rock star riding in this thing! Notice - you even get a red carpet!
Anyways, It would have been too easy if we just loaded up and flew home! But we took off and at 13,000 feet there was this loud shrieking noise and black hot air was coming in the vents! Nicole and I screamed of course (we were both having flashbacks to Porter and Dillon's near death experience)! So they turned the plane around and were ready to land when all of the sudden they flip the plane sideways and shoot straight up!! Nicole and I scream again - of course!!!

Well - we did land safely, but come to find out some guy in a tiny plane (who was probably an inexperienced weekend warrior) was in Porter and Dillon's cleared airspace for landing! So they saved our lives by turning sideways and shooting up - even though it freaked me out! It's like being on a lagoon ride from H. E. double hockey sticks! You know the ones when your stomach does about ten 360's and you feel very heavy!

So we spent about another hour on the ground while they fixed the problem - we hoped! Then we got back on - we must be crazy - (and I had all ready checked out renting a car) - and we were off for a test flight! As we were on the runway - Dillon said to us, "Now if it does it again, it's not a big deal, we'll just turn around and land - but you don't have to scream." Okay sure Dillon!


Well, the test flight was successful! We did make it home to Salt Lake! Good job Porter and Dillon! This is all new to me, but I fell like somehow - this is just another day in the life of Porter and Dillon! And I need to thank my mom for tending Tanner all day, and Cynde (Port's mom) for up picking Courtney and Jake from school and taking care of them for me until I made it home! It was fun to get to get away with Port and do something different!