Para Gliders...

On Thursday Steve went to pick Maddy up from his second day of school and when they got home Maddy ran in the house frantically excited saying "Mommy, did you see the para gliders outside?" He said "come and see" and ran out the back door. There were tons of para gliders by the mountains behind our house. Steve counted 36(but I'm sure there were more. ) He called our friend Mike who does paragliding to find out what was going on and I guess there was a competition going on all week. Anyway it was really cool to see(the picture doesn't do it justice at all-they look like little white dots) and Maddy was SO excited. After we went Skydiving in June we had decided we wanted to go paragliding-now Steve really wants to go. One ended up landing about a block from our house(for a minute I thought it might land in the yard next door), and Maddy insisted we go on a little walk to see if he was OK. It was so cute-he was so concerned. While we were walking he said "Mommy, do you want me to hold your hand?" Of course I did and it was so hot that our hands got all sweaty but I didn't care. :) Once we got to the guys(there happened to be two that landed) we talked to them a bit. If they wouldn't have landed prematurely it would've been about a 5 hour trip-I can't believe they can stay up that long. Maddy of course was a little chatter box on the walk back home. I loved the little moments like these with my kids.