airplane arrives

flight maps of rockwall, saint louis, and boston.... special places to k and me
(it is missing one peice that was not included so there is a tail wheel coming)

So when we decided to do airplanes (after I had painted the city already... oops, but the airplane is not flying into the city but out to the rest of the world) the plan was to have my dad send one of the airplanes he built and was hanging in my house as a child. They were huge and fantastic and absolutely beautiful and one of my most vivid house memories. Well after much work from my dad in NC it was just too much of a challenge to mail the already put together plane. So we had to go with plan b.... he ordered a piper warrior cub from the hobby shop and Keegan would put it together but it would be "ARF" almost ready to fly so should not be tons to put together... it is amazing and really fun in the room. However, my dad is a pilot and loves planes, Keegan knows little about them except he has traveled a lot and he has never put a model together in his life. He saw this as a challange and so on Thursday when the doorbell rang with the delivery he was pumped. He headed to the hobby store right away buying all sorts of different glues and clips and strings. You see these planes could really fly if an engine was put in - everything works and moves. This began at 11am. Keegan wanted to make it so it all worked despite not putting the motor in it when we hung it up in the room. Well by 3 oclock i hear......okay this is just going to be put together.... it will not be flyable and by 315 he is flicking the thing off... at about 330 he is saying "this is for professionals what the hell is an aileron?" (it is a wing flap but having little aviation knowledge he was confused where parts were going). 340 he had exploded hobby glue (stronger than super glue) all over his hand... comes running in because he had been outside because of the smell to wash it off... dripping all over the floor. I am laughing but a little concerned at this point. I go over to the sink and decide I need to help since I have done jack and this was all my plan and proceed to try and wipe up glue with paper towel and wipe off Keegan... this is where I become covered in glue and paper towel mixture...... Keegan and I are dying laughing... ava wants to know what is going on and comes over to see, stepping in the piles of glue on the ground on her way over to us. And as far as I can tell at this point all thats done is the propeller is on the plane and a million pieces spread out on table and he has turned the clean house into an airplane hanger workshop.
My mom was coming in that night so I went to airport to get her leaving Keegan to put Ava to sleep and finish his project, he had about 4 hours. My moms flight was delayed by 2 hours and at 950 I get a text with a picture of the finished product and a message that I cant understand cause he cant text with all the glue still on his fingers. But it was completed and he was very proud of himself and the plane looked amazing.
Its in the room, Ava is very jealous, and my husband will not build and airplane for a while. Thanks so much doodad, you made the room. If only you had been here to see how it got together.