00:00My boyfriend has been training to become a commercial pilot for the last few years,
00:05and today is his very first flight with passengers.
00:08He doesn't know this, but I'm going to be one of his passengers, and I'm so excited.
00:14Mason has wanted to be a pilot for a while.
00:17He actually started his journey in 2019.
00:22It's a lot of work. It's a grind.
00:24I saw his first flight was scheduled on our Google Calendar, and I looked at my work schedule
00:30and was like, this is going to work out perfectly. I've got to make it happen.
00:34I called his mom the day before, and I was like, hey, I'm going to do a crazy thing.
00:41I told her what I wanted to do, and she's like, oh, I've been wanting to do that.
00:45If you're going, I'm going.
00:46We are going to Montana and back. I'm so proud of him. I cannot wait to surprise him.
00:51My goal is for him to not know I'm on the flight until we touch back down into our home
00:56city.
00:57Okay, I'm on my way to the airport. He doesn't have to be there as early as me,
01:02so he thinks that I'm running to do a quick errand before work.
01:08He had his uniform all ironed and pressed and set out on the bed last night.
01:13That's so cute.
01:16So we went to the gate, and then we went and we were hiding in the bathrooms,
01:19just watching for him, waiting for him and the captain to be able to board so that we could hurry
01:25and go on. It was kind of stressful because we were trying to stay hidden, and then the whole time
01:31on the flight, we were just so giddy.
01:33We're on the plane. We're playing with Mason's mom, and we saw him in the cockpit.
01:39We're heading to Montana for our first flight.
01:43There's been a lot of instances in our relationship where he has been there for me
01:47and supported myself through all of the things I have going on.
01:51I was happy to finally be able to return the favor.
01:56The flight attendant told us that we should surprise him when we land in Montana,
02:01so he knows we're on the flight going home.
02:05We are hiding to slouch down in our seats so that he can't see us,
02:09and she's going to motion for us when it's time to get off the plane to surprise him.
02:13If we're landing, he's landing the plane right now.
02:18It's so good.
02:30How are you guys here?
02:34What the?
02:38Did you guys buy tickets or what?
02:40Don't worry about it.
02:41What the heck?
02:42What the heck?
02:43What the heck?
02:44Are you kidding me?
02:45What the heck?
02:56It was emotional.
02:57That whole cockpit was crying.
02:59I was crying.
03:00His mom was crying.
03:01The flight attendant was crying.
03:03The captain got emotional.
03:05It was really, really special.
03:06He is such a sweet spirit.
03:08He's the first to celebrate other people's wins,
03:11and it felt so cool to be able to return that in such a way that was so meaningful to
03:16him.
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