Waiting for Nana & Dandy

My mom and dad, now known as Nana & Dandy, were returning from their 2 week missions trip to Kenya on Friday and I was picking them up at the airport. I thought it would be fun to bring Gabriela along for the ride and surprise Nana & Dandy. She agreed!

Their flight was scheduled to arrive at 8:08pm and we arrived a few minutes early. Gabriela has a huge fascination with airplanes so we drove around a few times, checking out all the planes taking off and landing, rolling down the windows so that she could listen to the engines roar and enjoying every minute of it. That is, until a few minutes turned into 20 minutes, then 40 minutes and then over an hour...and finally the wait was over 1 hour and 10 minutes later. Yikes!

Gabriela just couldn't understand why it was taking so long. Didn't Nana & Dandy know that we were outside waiting for them? Why can't we go inside? Why do we have to keep going in circles? Why won't the man just let us park the car here? Why do we have to be the ones to pick up Nana & Dandy? Can you just take me home, CC, and the airplane can just drop Nana & Dandy off at home? I could go on...but I think you get the idea.

On one of our last circles around Terminal A, Gabriela informed me of the following: "CC, let me just tell you something. This is the last time that we come to pick up Nana & Dandy at the airport. Someone else in the family can do it next time." ~ ha! At the time, I couldn't have agreed more :) I think next time, I'll just leave the little ones behind and go at it alone with a book in the cell phone lot and wait for my dad to call and tell me they've landed.

Here's a little video I took while we were waiting...it captures us waiting as well as Gabriela's fascination with airplanes...enjoy!