But wait !!!! There's more !!!!!!!
So, I get home and can't wait to show my wife and kids and there, on the table are three tickets for SUN 'N FUN Fly-in at the Lakeland airport !!!!!! Someone donated them to us so I could take the boys. We got there in time to watch the Blue Angels perform and got to look at a LOT of awesome full-scale planes.
I guess you could say I had a great first day flying, or flying -- again, or whatever. It was a great day. =)