The Best Weekend Ever
posted by Jen | 10:32 AM
I had a very good weekend.
There was not only one, but two Halloween parties. Mark brought 40 LB! of dry ice to my party. Then he put some in his mouth - stupid boy. I think maybe he got Sarah to try it. I think putting anything that can give you frostbite in 1 second flat into your mouth is insane. Halloween party #2 was at my friend Nujoud's house. I hadn't seen a lot of the people in that crowd for like a year, so that was pretty fun.
On Saturday, between the Halloween craziness, I had my first flying lesson!!! It was great. I taxied, took off *basically* by myself, did climbs, turns, descents, and one sloppy decending turn. I then flew the plane into the pattern at the airport, and watched my instructor land. He was telling me what he was doing to land the plane, but I was pretty overloaded at the time so I don't remember more than the basic sketch of the sequence. Something about 60 kts, two different flap settings, and then idling onto the runway. I think it might be a few more lessons before I'm ready to do that!
Anyway, it was totally, totally cool and I'm really excited that I'm finally doing this. Yea, me!
Sunday I passed on a movie outing because I was pretty tuckered out from the rest of the weekend. In fact, I was asleep on the couch when Becca picked Gavin up to go. The house is still a mess from the party Friday - not sure when I'm going to tackle that. I needed the lazy day yesterday, though.
There was not only one, but two Halloween parties. Mark brought 40 LB! of dry ice to my party. Then he put some in his mouth - stupid boy. I think maybe he got Sarah to try it. I think putting anything that can give you frostbite in 1 second flat into your mouth is insane. Halloween party #2 was at my friend Nujoud's house. I hadn't seen a lot of the people in that crowd for like a year, so that was pretty fun.
On Saturday, between the Halloween craziness, I had my first flying lesson!!! It was great. I taxied, took off *basically* by myself, did climbs, turns, descents, and one sloppy decending turn. I then flew the plane into the pattern at the airport, and watched my instructor land. He was telling me what he was doing to land the plane, but I was pretty overloaded at the time so I don't remember more than the basic sketch of the sequence. Something about 60 kts, two different flap settings, and then idling onto the runway. I think it might be a few more lessons before I'm ready to do that!
Anyway, it was totally, totally cool and I'm really excited that I'm finally doing this. Yea, me!
Sunday I passed on a movie outing because I was pretty tuckered out from the rest of the weekend. In fact, I was asleep on the couch when Becca picked Gavin up to go. The house is still a mess from the party Friday - not sure when I'm going to tackle that. I needed the lazy day yesterday, though.
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