Andy Godfrey

The weather's beautiful.

I stick my head out of the wreckage, and there's the helicopter coming straight at us.

And I start signaling with my hand, and, you know, we're rescued.

And that is a feeling, I guess, very, very few people get to experience.

The feeling of just unbelievable gratefulness and joy of being out of the ordeal.

It's over.

I didn't have a big reaction.

And maybe I was still kind of in shock or whatever.

But I remember learning later that the reporter said, well, he obviously doesn't realize what's happened.

Otherwise, he would be reacting differently.

And to this day, I feel that

the whole accident sort of numbed my feelings a little bit.

And it seems like I cry at different times now that, you know, don't cry in things that are really, really sad.

And I do cry in things that maybe aren't sad.

So maybe something changed in me then, but that's definitely how it went down that first night.

I mean, it was just sort of moving on.

We did not get to go back to Houston and see any of our old friends or my grandparents were still in Houston.

We just immediately sort of transitioned into the Shoemaker house and started making new friends, kind of moving on to the best of our ability.

He sort of just said, you know, tell me about your life.

And I said, I had this idyllic life in Houston, and then I was in this plane crash, and we moved to Aspen.