We arrived back in Texas this afternoon. The plane touched down at 5pm central time. I had enough time to listen to the Seahawks loose the lead and get it back just as quick as they lost it.
Anyway, at about 3:30pm central time our plane was dead center over the Rockies. We were flying very smoothly. We were enjoying the flight as it was not very full and we were able to claim a whole row of seats. Katie had Lindsay in a set of three seats and I had Leslie in the other three seats. ALL OF A SUDDEN....BAM!!!!! The plane shook violently. Now, I have experienced turbulence before and this was was crazy! Picture the TV show LOST when stuff goes flying everywhere. We were in the back of the plane and the flight attendants were in the galley with all of their serving items loose. Lets just say it went everywhere. One flight attendant ended up laying in the middle of the aisle and she did not voluntarily lay down there! A guy two seats in front of me lost his coffee only instead of it falling to floor, it was all over the ceiling of the plane.
The plane shook and dropped and moved for only about 30 seconds we figure, and then it was fine again. Needless to say it was not a happy 30 seconds. The girls handled it like Champs. While both girls were frightened, Lindsay did have a comment when it was over, "WEEEEEE!" We believe she has flown too many times for a four year old! :-)
When we were getting off of the plane, we saw a guy in a suit with an FAA badge requesting a special inspection of the plane! We decided that it is really amazing that something made by man can be 30,000 feet in the air traveling a break-neck speeds and handle that kind of pressure/violence.
Another side note......we got home and the house was a cool 62 degrees. We lowered the temp in the house while we were gone. Guess how we warmed the house up????? We opened the windows. It was 75 degrees outside with a slight breeze! Got to love Texas!
