We went on a helicopter ride!!!

This week's mission organization is called JAARS and it is a part of Wycliffe Bible Translators...JAARS used to stand for Jungle Aviation And Radio Service...but it doesn't anymore...Now it's just JAARS and they have aviation, but also have a lot of other services in Papau New Guinea and maybe Indonesia, I can't remember...

Anyway--they are giving short helicopter rides this week for a fee, and Jason and I figured that could be a once in a lifetime sort of thing, so we signed up!! Quite terrifying, but really exciting too!!
Here's the pictures!
We got to sit next to the pilot and wear headsets to hear ourselves...

This was pretty cool!

The wind was pretty strong today, so the take-off was a pretty scary thing, but as we got moving, it was so cool to see the people around, the houses and streets and cars...

And soooo many pools in backyards right by the Lake! Strange!


Here's the sky-view of the lakefront at Maranatha...The pool and condos in the middle are right behind the main beachfront of the camp, and if you look way up near the top of the picture, I'm pretty sure you can see a part of our house where we live in India...Fun!
Here we are after the flight...What fun!





















This is another plane that's here this week, it's a bigger, more expensive plane made especially for mission flights...It takes off real quick and can land with just a little landing strip...It also has a huge engine and takes jet fuel which I guess is a cool and different thing from most planes...We didn't get to ride in this, but Jason got to sit in the cockpit and this guy told us all the cool things about flight school and planes and missionary flights and stuff...

That was cool!!!