The Campbell's Visit

This past weekend Todd's parents came down to visit. I picked them up at GTR on Thursday at around 11:45 and we were off to CAFB. The rest of the day consisted of a tour of the base, a tour of our house and Todd coming home.

On Friday, Todd had to get up early to go into work, his parents and I went out near the runway to try to catch a glimpse of him taking off. He was scheduled to fly his formation solo. (If you are not sure what a formation solo is, there is two planes flying about 10ft from each other and Todd was in one of the planes by himself...the other one has an instructor pilot (IP) and a student in it.) If you read my last posting than you already know we got lots of pictures of what we thought was Todd! We went back to the house and waited a little, then went back over to see him land. They normally fly somewhere between an hour and 15 minutes, to and hour and a half. (We were not sure if we saw him land or not...but when we compared what time we were standing there to what time he said he landed, we are pretty sure it was him!) I had made a cake in between all of those events and we took it into the flight room...while we were in there I pointed out all of the different areas to his parents. (That is when David told us it was him that we saw earlier taxiing out. Too funny!) We then hung out at home until Todd got off work and later that evening played some cards.

On Saturday we went to Tupelo to see where Elvis was born and drove around up there a little bit. Later that evening we went to Harvey's for a nice dinner. On the way home we went for a drive around the perimeter of the base, to show his parents how large the base is and we saw this armadillo in the process...he was a brave little guy, he got pretty close to the car!

Sunday we took them to our church down here...and it was a special Sunday because our friend Elizabeth was baptised and we got to see that! (Good Job Elizabeth!) We ate at a place called Proffit's Porch and went back and hung out at home. On Monday, Todd headed to Rico's to study a little (he had a test that day) and then went to work. His mom offered to take his place for the day, but for some reason he didn't take her up on that...

We really lucked out because Todd was able to come home early and have a nice evening with us. We went out to dinner, played another game of cards, and then we called it a night! At around 4:30 the next morning I took them to GTR so they could head back to PA...we all couldn't believe that the weekend went so fast!

Here are a few random pictures we took during their trip...

He looks like he is up to something!

What is the saying?..."Act your age, not your shoe size"

(He doesn't quite get it yet!)

Just hangin' out at the homestead!

Tom and Dee it was nice that you could come down and visit...now you can visualize a lot of the places and people that we tell you guys about on the phone! We hope you had a great time and we will see you guys soon! Thanks again!!

Love ya,

Tara and Todd