(bird calling)
- You hear that bird?
(bird calling)
- [Woman] That bird is creepy sounding.
- That raven sounds like those screaming goats.
Have you heard those?
It's so funny.
Lincoln, we just got here to the lake.
What have you been doing?
- We went out to the water.
I jumped on that new trampoline.
- Did you jump in the water from it?
- It's like,
It's so much colder than Lake Powell.
- It's freezing.
- [Camera Man] (laughs)
Yeah, but it's still nice.
- Yeah.
- I gotta say one thing about today,
the reason why we're here, it's Grandpa Bill's birthday.
Happy Birthday, Bill.
- Thank you.
(cheering)
- Everyone sing Happy Birthday like dogs!
- I forgot to say happy--
- Everyone do like Happy Birthday and like,
that confetti shooting emoji.
- [Camera Man] Oh, yeah. Everybody do that for Grandpa Bill.
Say Happy Birthday Grandpa Bill! Confetti!
(electronic music)
- [Camera Man] It's really up here.
No wonder they call it the Upper Cabin.
Oh, look at this moss.
Whoa.
Oh, wow, it's an actual cabin!
- [Lincoln] What'd you think it was?
- [Camera Man] That's nice! And nobody uses this?
- [Lincoln] Nope!
- [Camera Man] Do you have the key?
- [Owen] Got it. This is my key.
- [Camera Man] Watch out for spider webs.
Oh man, they're everywhere.
Ah! Spider webs!
Oh wow, this is it.
- [Brown-haired Boy] Pretty nice, huh?
- A bit more spider webs.
Many, many, many more spider webs.
- [Camera Man] Okay, boys, boys, boys,
I need to talk to you, that's why we came up here.
How good are you at keeping secrets?
Can you hold a secret from now until 8PM?
- Oh, easy.
- [Camera Man] What if it's a secret against your grandpa?
- What are you doing?
- At eight o'clock PM, we have to be outside, maybe 7:45.
A float plane is gonna land and pull up to the cabin.
And then we're gonna see if Grandpa will take it back
with the pilot, and fly back to Fairbanks.
- All the way back?
- [Camera Man] All the way back.
- Grandpa's birthday.
Grandpa used to fly planes, like, a long, long time ago.
I think he was like, a firefighter.
For small planes, you'd drop that red stuff on fires
out of the planes, way back in the day.
But it's been a long time.
Honestly, I don't know how excited he's gonna be.
I think he's going to turn down the present.
He does not like things being about him.
He's just like, such an honest, sincere, charitable man
that he just loves to do everything for everybody else.
You heard him earlier when we were like,
- Everyone do like, Happy Birthday and that like,
confetti shooting emoji.
- And you could hear, he was like, "No, no, don't do that."
He didn't even know what the birthday emojis are,
but he's like, "Nope, don't do that."
Surprise birthday party present: a float plane ride.
- [Camera Man] Bye, Landon! Bye, Owen!
Have fun! We're gonna go down this!
- I'm gonna show you how to do it with your knees.
- [Camera Man] Okay, let's see it.
Whoa! You kinda went down the side of it.
Can I do it with the camera?
This camera is not water proof.
It's the only camera we brought here.
Do not recommend doing this with your only camera
that you film all of your videos with.
Here we go!
(screams)
It's not as deep as I thought.
This water is not as cold as you would think.
We are in Alaska, just outside of Fairbanks,
which has the biggest variation of temperature
in the entire world.
70 below zero in the winter,
and up to 90 degrees in the summer.
Biggest variation of a city.
So in the summer time it's perfect,
perfect,
because it's so hot out here.
Just a few months ago, and now we're in it and it feels,
honestly, it feels warmer than Lake Powell.
- Yeah.
- It's so much colder than Lake Powell.
- It's probably around 76, 77 degrees, just in the water.
- Yeah.
- Pretty sweet.
(electronic music)
(shouting)
- [Camera Man] You gonna go on the boat?
- Yeah.
- [Camera Man] Who's gonna go on the tube?
Are you going?
- [Young Girl] Nope.
- [Camera Man] No? What are you gonna do?
Are you gonna hold the flag up?
You gonna be the flag girl?
Whenever somebody falls out you
throw the flag in the air and wave it.
- [Young Girl] What does that mean?
- [Camera Man] That means that any other boats that go by
know there's somebody in the water, be careful.
Sound good? You can do that job?
And that's what we do at the lake.
The water's actually super warm.
Alright, let's see what we've got here.
Where's that smell coming from?
Oh, it's right there.
We got some fish.
- [Women] Crab.
- Colossus.
- [Camera Man] Straight from the TV show.
Is this your card, Lincoln?
Did you make that?
- Yeah, I made it.
- [Camera Man] That's like, the best arts and crafts
I've ever seen you make.
I'm not joking. Nice job, bud.
What is it, Lincoln?
- [Bill] Happy Birthday.
You almost ran out of room didn't you?
- Yeah.
- [Bill] "From Linc."
Good job, good job, thank you Lincoln.
- [Camera Man] Happy Birthday Bill.
Did you make that cake?
- I did, with my bare hands.
(everyone singing Happy Birthday)
(cheering)
- The best performed birthday song you've ever heard
in your life right there. Wow.
Alright, here's what's going on,
I just got a text that the plane is on its way, it's 7:10.
Bill wanted to take the boats out
and go do some stuff with the kids.
And I'm like, "No, no, let's just put everything away."
I have to be sneaky because if the plane arrives
and Bill doesn't have all of his stuff done,
then he's gonna wanna stay here and be like,
"Oh, someone's gotta put the boat away."
So we're gonna go put all the boats away
as the plane is coming.
I'm excited! This is gonna be sweet.
Lot's of stuff to clean up here.
Whoa, don't fall in!
Look at that!
Go tell Grandpa to come out!
Here it comes, guys.
There it is. Oh yeah, there it is!
Alright, just circled around.
He's trying to get a lay of the land,
I figured he'd do that.
And he's gonna come over here.
Isn't this fun?
- Yeah, I hope he goes for it.
- [Young Boy] There's a float plane! Grandpa!
- [Bill] Oh, yeah! Who's is that?
- [Camera Man] Look at that guy!
Oh, that's so cool, it just lands on the water!
- [Bill] Looks like a 150 or...
- [Camera Man] Have you ever flown one of those, Bill?
- Not a float plane.
I've flown a Cessna 172.
Who is that? Who is that?
I think he's coming in here.
- [Camera Man] You know that guy, Bill?
- I don't know if it's...
Who is that? Who is that?
- [Camera Man] Lincoln, tell Grandpa the secret.
- We're taking the float plane back to Fairbanks.
Happy Birthday.
- [Camera Man] Just you and Lincoln.
- No, you and...
No, no, no.
- Are you serious?
- Well that was very nice!
I want my phone! I want my phone!
- [Camera Man] Okay, go grab your phone really quick.
Oh, here it comes!
Oh, that's so cool! Nice job!
Man, that's cool.
Alright, Bill, you got this?
- I got this.
Let me see, do we have everything we're supposed to?
You got my keys?
- Lincoln's taking the camera,
his job is to vlog this.
Got it, bud?
- Got it.
Okay, we are on the flotation part of the float plane.
And this is gonna be awesome.
- [Pilot] Your seatbelt on, and get your headset as well.
- It's comfy. Thanks!
This is awesome.
- [Pilot] Seatbelt on.
You'll wanna run the lap belt portion underneath
your flotation device.
- Got our headset on.
I don't know if I'm talking too loud or too soft.
- [Camera Man] Aw, yeah, look at that!
- Alright we're taking off and this is gonna be awesome.
Out there window, here's some boats.
And there goes the cabin.
This is awesome.
So there's two front seats.
Grandpa and the pilot, the other window.
This is gonna be so much fun.
Yeah, I can hear you.
This is awesome.
We're on a plane, in a boat, like, we're on water!
In a plane that's on water!
So strange. Look at that!
(electronic music)
We're going so fast!
This is so cool!
(electronic music)
- [Camera Man] There he goes, right there.
- There they are, that's the cabin right over there,
and this is awesome, this is so cool.
So pretty, it's awesome.
So there's Fairbanks.
We're about to land.
This is gonna be fun.
We're almost there.
Right at, like, the straight runway,
that's where we're landing.
By the way, this is the best way to look for slug-bugs.
Here we are!
Oh we landed! Look at that!
That's amazing!
We're in a plane and we just landed on water.
So cool.
Was that fun, Grandpa?
- [Bill] That was great.
I was just worried about you throwing up in the back.
- Oh, no, only if I was like, reading a book or something.
We've done it.
It was awesome.
Off the float plane, and I think we beat 'em.
- [Bill] We beat 'em. We beat 'em.
- This is the fun meter right here.
And my fun meter is at max.
- We are on our way back right now.
I am driving Grandpa Bill's truck.
I am honestly surprised at his excitement level.
He went for it!
He was like, "Oh, this is for me? No, no, no."
And then we're like, "Yeah, this is for you,"
and he's like, "Okay, I'm gonna go get my phone."
In life, when you really want to do something,
and your able to do something nice for somebody else,
in many, many ways, it feels better
than if you did it yourself.
Like, I felt super nice inside, like, warm inside
when I saw Bill's excitement, when I saw
Lincoln and Bill going on that ride.
Thanks for coming along for Bill's birthday adventure today.
It was a blast. Thanks for watching, guys.