Surprise Lunch Flight

Last weekend was Mother´s Day and I hope everyone had the chance to spend some time with their mother. I was lucky enough to talk to my mom on skype for a while and that meant so much to me. And here on the base in Iquitos there are a few Air Force traditions for Mother´s Day that I had the chance to be a part of.

Normally all the officers host a lunch and later an evening show with comedy sketches and dancing. So let´s talk about the lunch first. Coco told me I had to go to the base and enter the Squad room where all of women would have lunch. So we all sat together and the Major started to make a little speech about how valuable our support is to our husbands and so on and so on....and then he said, ¨Oh, I have a special message from the Coronel. It says that all the wives are to report for duty at the docks of the twin otter planes for a special mission.¨ Next thing we know we walk through a hallway and are given our husband´s flight suit and we are wisked away on the twin otter planes to take a flight over the city. It was a total surprise, and it was amazing! Here´s some pictures from the day.

Our flight started at the air base very close to our house and took us all around the city. The river is particularly high right now and the city looked different from the air than it normally does. Here´s some pictures I took from the plane.

Obviously I had a great time and it was one of the best surprises ever.