About a month ago, our good friend, LG, sent us a message, saying that she would like to throw a suprise birthday party for her hubby, another very good friend of ours, BG, as he was turning the big 3-0. While something like this would just involve getting a babysitter for the night, this was a bit more complicated. BG used to be a Dispatcher for Northwest Airlines, which means that in order to keep his job, they had to move to Atlanta over a year ago when NWA merged with Delta. Luckily, my wonderful job comes with wonderful flight benefits. Another great thing is that many of our friends in this group also have flight benefits. So, I started to think how we could make this work and realized that while direct flights to ATL tend to be a bit full, they are wide open through St. Louis! So.....called up G and G and asked if they would like to watch two munchkins for the weekend. They were thrilled and immediately started planning a weekend of fun! We flew to St. Louis on Friday night, hung out, left the kids there and headed off to Atlanta on Sat morning. Had a GREAT time with our friends there and then flew back to St. Louis on Sunday, spent the day and night with G & G and then flew home Monday morning. The fact that we could pull this off makes me so thankful for my job and it's wonderful benefits. What a great weekend for us and our kids! Thanks G & G for watching them!
I love this picture! So glad they all had fun!
This actually turned out to be a bit of a reunion from a couple of years ago when we went to the G's wedding in Jamaica, as our friends J and J were able to come from Minneapolis too, since he is a pilot for Pinnacle and some others that were at the wedding also made the move to Atlanta.
The birthday boy and J, taking shots. :)
When we were in St. Louis on Sunday, we went to the zoo to see the "March of the Penguins." So cool! They move the penguins from their summer to their winter home by letting them just walk down the sidewalk at the zoo, so we had to check it out.
Isn't he cute?
Just walking down the sidewalk. Kind of felt like we were in Happy Feet.
Just sayin' hi!
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