The skies were perfectly clear today. I watched about four small planes fly past my window at work. It was around the third or forth plane that little tears started trickling down my cheek. In the spur of the moment, I phoned the airport to ask them to plug in my plane, I emailed my supervisor that I was taking a couple hours vacation, then out of the office I flew!
I had no idea where I was going to fly, so I started out along the Lake Ontario shoreline, over to Niagara-On-The-Lake. I then climbed to 3600′ and entered the Niagara Falls scenic circuit. Here’s a shot of Great Wolf Lodge:
Then toward the Falls:
The Rainbow Bridge…not too much traffic:
I didn’t see the rainbow while I was taking this picture (you know, since I also had to concentrate on flying the plane):
I was going to head toward Fort Erie but decided to go back out to Long Point. The temperatures have been fairly mild the last couple of days, so I wanted to see if there were any ice fishing-dudes still out there. On the way, I passed a flock of geese:
You can see Long Point along the top of this next pic. I love the reflection:
To my surprise, since I could see how thin the ice was along certain parts of the shoreline, there were still quite a few fisher-folks out there:
The pollution over Hamilton was really noticeable heading back home:
And last but not least, the next picture in the new St. Catharines hospital updates:
Needless to say, it turned out to be a great day! I’m taking tomorrow off as vacation. I have to bring the new kitties over to the animal hospital in the morning to be fixed. I can’t wait to get the call saying they made it through the procedure. In the meantime, Jan will be coming here and were going to do a little shopping then head over to the chiropractor to get cracked and popped.
Today’s symptoms: I had quite a bit of energy today. I’m now dealing with a fairly bad headache and some body aches, but it WILL be better tomorrow – gosh darn-it!
Lizzy McFly 