Endeavor

2 cute little fellahs

Passing the time

Santi with the captain

Our view of LBC from the Queen Mary

Entering the ship

Pelican

Santi and Bobby's feet running to the top deck

There were people on roofs all over the place

"Byyyy Buddyyyy....hope ya find your daaaadd!"

Beto got some good pictures even with the sun in the way.

The best picture we could get. It went faster than we expected. Imagine that! It's a jet!

Find the creeper




We had a great time getting to watch history yesterday .  We heard that the space shuttle Endeavor would be doing a "flyover" SoCal on it's way to it's final landing at LAX on the back of a 747.  The historic ship the Queen Mary gave free entry to everyone saying "Endeavor" as they entered.  We were told the flyover would take place around 11:30 at the latest, so we arrived around 9:30 and got a good parking place and a great view on the deck.  There were a lot of people still arriving but I was surprised there weren't actually more.  But by around 1pm when the plane really did fly over there was a major traffic jam in the parking lot of people still arriving!! They were definately on California time.  I also think that the Queen Mary staff wasn't quite prepared for such a large turnout.  We could tell that the Endeavor was arriving even though we couldn't see it because of the people's reactions who could see it.  We were on the front of the ship and the plane came up from the back.  It was like seeing a crowd do the wave at a baseball game.  The people who saw it first starting pointing and using their camaras and slowly those movements trickled through the rest of the crowd. Then when everyone realized it would pass on the opposite side, that wave of people moved steadily in unison to the other side.  Afterwards it was another even altogether to get out of the parking lot that had only three lanes at one exit site.  It only took about 30 minutes though to get out instead of the 2 hours I'd predicted.  But there was more than one fenderbender and a lot of angry, yelling drivers! So exciting to have watched history with you all!!!  I just wish Bela could've been there. I think one of the hardest parts for me of having her in the hospital is that it's just not normal, obviously.  Instead of having her with us, she had to be alone (well, the nurses are awesome) for those 4 hours while we were all gone.  And we have to take turns being with her so someone else can be at home with Santi and do the chores, whereas if she were home she could be playing on the floor with Santi while I do laundry,etc.  I know we will have that luxury soon. We thank you for all of your prayers.  We know this has been a rollercoaster and will continue to be, but we could'nt have done it without all of the prayer support.