The Branch Family: February 2009

Kyler has always wanted to fly on a plane since he like 2. So this year we thought we would take him on his first plane ride and go to vegas. We flew down early saturday morning and came home late sunday night. We had grandma sandy and grandpa lulu (ken) and kyle go with us. We wanted this whole thing to be a surpise so I packed all of kylers things and we threw everything in the car so he had no idea. We told him we were going to wake up early on sat and go surprise lulu and sandy by waking them up very early. He had planned to jump on their beds and and wake them up. So sat morn we woke up early he was in a very good mood, we told him we had to make a quick stop. He still had no clue what was goin on until we got inside the airport and then he was very excited, luckily the plan to go wake them up happened in the hotel on sun morning..
The plane ride was very fun he got to watch spongebob the whole way down. Kayden was actually pretty good considering he had to sit on my lap the whole time. Once we got there we stayed in the Tropicana hotel. They had an indoor pool which was very fun and it was close to MGM grand and the M & M factroy so we got to do a lot of fun stuff while we were there.
Our trip home was not as fun as the way to vegas. Kylers TV didnt work for some reason so he was upset he couldnt not watch cartoons. Our plane was suppose to arrive around 5:40 and was delayed an hour. We were now scheduled to arrive in SLC around 9:30 or 10pm. Once we were on the plane and ready to land we found out the aiport was closed because of the storm that had come in that day. The pilot said that for saftey reasons we were flying to Boise, Idaho becasue we were almost out of fuel and had no idea how long until they would open the airport back up. So an hour flight to Boise. By now it was like 11 or 11:30pm and we were waiting for everyone to use the restroom and fuel up the plane. Good news the airport was now open so we got everyone seated and finally arrived in SLC around 1:30. Now we had an hour drive home and then could finally go to sleep. The roads had not been plowed once we hit davis county and we ended up spinning in slow motion right up next to the cement wall. It was the scairest moment of my life and I still dont know how we missed hitting it. However, I am VERY VERY thankful. We finally got home between 2:30-3am. Kyler was a good sport and went to school still, but daddy was the best sport. He was up at 5 to go to work. It was a very fun trip even though the way home was delayed a little, it was worth the trip.