Lizzy McFly

Mike and I were supposed to fly to his aunt and uncle’s BBQ near Newmarket last weekend, but the event was cancelled due to the weather.  Instead, it was rescheduled to this past weekend.  Fortunately, the weather was perfect, especially to fly.  Who wants to drive two hours?  (Sorry Mike’s mom and dad!).  We took off from St. Catharines at 1:15 on Saturday and headed around Lake Ontario, then North to Newmarket.  As always, it’s great to fly over downtown Toronto:

The stadium is all ready for the Pan Am games starting this weekend:

Fortunately, we did some flight planning the day before so it was no issue getting there:

I accidentally put a bag on Mike’s head.  Oops.

In less than an hour, we arrived at Holland Landing, which is a private airport:

Nice big hangar with some sweet looking aircraft:

Of course, none were as cute as my plane, but they meant well.

Mike’s parents literally just arrived at the airport within a minute or two of us touching down (I’m so glad I did smooth landing and didn’t embarrass myself!)  Onward to the party.  It was so nice to see everyone again.  Had some great conversations.  The only bad part was having to leave fairly early.  The airport we were at did not have any lighting, plus I wanted to get Vyctor back in the hangar in St. Catharines before the Flying Club closed up for the day.  So, his dad drove us back to Holland Landing around 6:00 (unfortunately, just before dinner was served!)

It was another nice flight for us, directly over Toronto.

Toodles, big city!

They’ll be doing some Pan Am sports here, in St. Catharines.  Ready to rock:

The only thing we missed on the way back was not seeing the Lancaster fly by us, as it did on the way there:

Awesome weekend.  I paid for it a bit on Sunday, as it was very busy and tiring on Saturday – completely worth it though.

Last night, I went to bed quite early as I was pooped.  Before packing it in though, I had Zim out for a little romp:

As you can see, Mya was thrilled to see him.

Today’s symptoms: Quite drained still today but not as bad as yesterday.  Going to feel even better tomorrow.  Had quite a few spasms in my left arm and hand today that were painful and a little out of the ordinary, but I decided they will be gone tomorrow too!