Plane Spotting

Early on Friday morning the Daviestribe crept out of the house on a secret mission! We climbed into the car & drove away to Liverpool John Lennon Airport to take Lee to catch his plane to London. After we had dropped Lee at the departure lounge the boys & I drove round to the viewing area at the end of the runway to watch the planes. The ground shakes when the bigger planes take off! The boys love it & would watch the planes for hours! This blue plane is the VML Air plane that Lee flew down to London City Airport in. It holds 50 passengers & has propellers! On the return flight Lee was flown by a female pilot. He said she drove like a mad thing on the runway!!!!!
On Saturday we were all very ill with coughs & colds so we drove out to do a spot of plane spotting for the afternoon as it requires very little energy, is very exciting & we were hoping that our little darlings might have a sleep on the drive there! (Our boys have to be very very ill before they sit still! Instead they just keep going & get grumpy!) Timmy conked out almost straight away & slept for nearly 2 hours while we watched helicopters, private planes & large passenger planes taking off & landing. It was chocka block full of cars in the viewing area too - must have been about 30 car loads of plane spotters (with their notepads & binoculars & the odd few with a wife in tow reading a paper!) & families of all ages & sizes. The boys love to watch for the red lights to flash which tells you that a plane is about to land. You can just see it on the photo of the Easyjet plane by it's tail. Luke kept saying 'Look! There's a real plane!' everytime he saw one. Timmy & Luke played going to see real planes for ages on Friday morning. It was really sweet! On Sunday though, we were all feeling rather rotten so didn't go to church. Lee & I took it in turns to sleep & we all took it easy!
I took this photo of the daffodils & narcissus at the bottom of our garden. Spring is really in the air! Our pear tree is starting to bud & the bulbs that Timmy & Luke planted back in October have started to flower. We've had quite a few warm, sunny days too. I like spring! :O)

PS Luke is sat with me as I write this. He is looking at the bud on the flower photo & is saying 'It's a lemon! A lemon flower!' And it does look a bit like a lemon doesn't it?!!