Had a marvelous four day weekend. The weather was great – finally! Mike hadn’t been to the Waterloo Airport before so we headed there for breakkie on Saturday. For some reason, I thought it was over an hour flight there but it’s only about 40 minutes. I’ve been there are few times too. Duh. There were about seven of us in the circuit when I entered. It’s always quite busy there.
Had a nice flight home. Mike had the camera and snapped a few pics:
As usual, Donkay joined us:
This one is of the firing range near Grimsby:
I went to that range quite a few times when I was in the Army. Here’s a pic of me heading down to the water to watch for boats:
That was the day they all stopped firing and went to eat lunch – forgot to tell me over the radio though. There I sat, all alone, stomach growling. Geesh.
We made it back to St. Catharines, safe and sound with full bellies.
Before going home, we decided to hit the Fairview Mall. We were shocked to see how much traffic there was. Then we saw a traffic light out – then another… We finally made it into the parking lot in front of Future Shop, only to be told by someone coming out that there’s a power failure and the mall was closed. I checked online to see the area of the outage and was shocked to see how huge it was:
It was quite a long drive to get out of the parking lot, due to the mass exodus. There were a lot of really snippy, miserable people who of course had to make the experience ten times worse by driving like complete idiots. We couldn’t believe how some of them cut whole lines of traffic right off. But they had to be first!
Once the power was back on, Mike and I were able to make a truly gourmet meal. We wanted poutine but didn’t have any cheese. Instead, we made mashed potatoes poutine:
Potatorific!
We had a much better meal on Sunday. My mother, Mike and myself went over to his sister’s house for Easter dinner. This was the first time my mother has met a good chunk of his family – having only met his mother before then. It was a really nice time, especially playing with the little kids, like this one:
Mike had to work Monday, but since I was off and the weather was nice, I went for another flight. Flew over my little mother’s house. She waved from the driveway:
I then headed over Niagara Falls:
Checked out a brush fire:
Did a couple circuits back at CYSN then rolled little Vyctor back to the Flying Club for safe keeping. Now that the weather is nicer, I get to start using my favourite pitot static cover again:
Now that’s classy!
After my flight and once Mike got home from work, we headed over to my friend Laura’s to meet their new, cute, tiny puppy, Bella:
Adorable! I still can’t believe how small she is – only 2.5 lbs! Of course, I also had to introduce Mike to the equally cute gecko, Peanut:
His eyes are almost as googly as Abby’s:
Actually, she’s not her normal insanely googly self in that pic, but still very cute.
Today’s symptoms: Not sure what happened around 9:00 this morning, but I was suddenly overwhelmed with fatigue. I had a really hard time staying awake and had to take a wake-up pill. It may have been from all the excitement this weekend. Not sure but I’m hoping I feel much better tomorrow.
Lizzy McFly 