On the plane, waiting on the tarmac* in Burbank for our flight to Denver. Kiernan at work coloring dinosaurs. Our flight went in two legs, stopping in Phoenix for a bit and then continuing on to Denver, and Kiernan was great. He's a much better traveler than I am. Not that this is difficult.
Incidentally, he's coloring Dimetrodon. He's crazy about prehistoric creatures right now, be they dinosaurs or pelycosaurs or sea creatures. He has more than twenty of them that he plays with, and he is very particular about which one is which. We decided to give him a new one after the plane took off from Burbank.
He gets so excited whenever he gets a new dinosaur. Makes me happy. Here we thought we were giving him Rhamphorhynchus, one of his favorite pterosaurs. A millisecond after he got it he said, "It's Pteranodon!" He pointed out the particular shape of the head as evidence of this. We were not convinced. Finally I took the thing and studied it. Some of these little figures have labels on them. Sure enough, next to the "Made in China" designation was the name of the dinosaur. Tough to make out, on one of the wings. Pteranodon. [Actually it reads 'Pteranoden', but who am I to quibble with spelling on a toy when I spelled it incorrectly in naming the picture file?]
Finally, we arrived in Denver where Gammy and Grance met us at the airport and drove us to Breckenridge.
Kiernan, walking with his Grance in the airport in Denver. I love moments like this.
*I love to use the word 'tarmac'.
1 comment:
Kiernan,
We're here, too.
Mitch
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