Good Fun!

Yippee!!! We are (hopefully) going to go flying with a pilot friend of ours in his private plane today! This past weekend is/was the last festival of the season called "The Blues & Brews" so Ari has been working a lot of over-time. Also, during the biggest festivals, police officers from all over come and help work the event because the population jumps from about 3,000 or 4,000, to 15,000 to 20,000! Anyway, one of the officers that has worked with Ari for the past four years is from Aspen, CO. He is a pilot and he flies his plane here every year, and this year he has invited us out for a flight.

Now, this is exciting enough as it is, but what you should know is that the air port is built on a mesa...a table top like area on the side of the mountain, so it just drops off at the end of the runway, about 500 ft. or so...Oh, and the runway is bowed in the middle, so that the runway looks like a smile when you look at it from the side, which of course adds some extra drama and excitement to the whole take off and landing! Ari and I have been dying to get to fly out of this air port, so we are both anxiously awaiting this excursion. I must say that I am a little nervous to fly in a small plane this high up in the mountains...for those of you who don't know, we are already at 10,000 ft. elevation! We'll keep you posted. I am going to take our camera and I will try to get some postable pictures for you all.