Lizzy McFly

What a wild week!  As mentioned in my last blog, Mike and I flew out to Welland for our monthly Recreational Aircraft Association meeting.  Good times!  Then on Wednesday, I flew over the Wise Guys Charity golf tournament.  The weather was crappy in the morning – low ceilings, so I wasn’t sure if I would be able to fly over.  Fortunately, the clouds lifted just before noon.  I ran down to my car to head out to the airport.  My keyless remote didn’t work.  Ugh!  I ran upstairs and got my spare – dead too!  Holy poop!  I used the key to get into the car, but that didn’t help since the remote is needed to start the car.  I was freaking out!  I had to text Mike, so he could leave work over his lunch and take me out to the airport.  I felt so bad but didn’t want to miss the flyover.  I made it over the golf course just after 12:30, which was perfect timing.  Someone from the St. Catharines Flying Club was leaving just after I took off to bring a plane over to the Club in Welland.  Since he didn’t have a ride back to St. Catharines, I stopped there to pick him up and take him back with me.  The favour was nicely returned when my friend from the Club drove me back home.  In the evening, Mike and I headed out to Fonthill to join the golfers for an awesome buffet dinner.  What a view from the club house:

Perfect day!  I couldn’t believe how well I felt too!  Thankfully, I was feeling just as good the next day.  Jan and I had planned to fly to Stratford to visit the town.  We arrived at the airport just after 9:00 and headed out to Stratford.  Perfectly smooth day (I’m so glad because if I hit one little bump in the air, Jan glares at me and says “You did that on purpose!”)  It took us about 50 minutes to get there.  While coming in to land, I asked the folks at the terminal building to phone a cab for us. Perfect timing as it arrived just after we parked Vyctor. We had the cab drop us off at the Tim Hortons downtown, for a well needed coffee before hitting the shops.  Another perfect day – weather-wise and feeling amazing health-wise!  It was almost too good to be true!  I can’t believe the energy I had.  We spent hours browsing the shops, then hit a sports bar for noms:

After we ate, we visited a couple more stores then called a taxi to take us back to the airport:

Great flight home – I couldn’t stop smiling with how great everything went.

Another flight yesterday!  It was the Flying Club pig roast.  Mike and I got there a little early so he could try to record me from the ground doing aerobatics.  We need to tweak things with the camera a bit.  We had issues with auto focus, which we shouldn’t have had on, plus we need to make some adjustments to the tripod.  It was still a fun flight but very hot!  It was a relief to head into the air conditioned Club and eat some piggy!  Yum!

So there you have it, a flighterific week!  And just to make it even better, Mike got me this cake for hitting 500 hours of flight time recently!

How perfect!  And it tastes amazing (we’re still eating it!)  The kitties didn’t get to enjoy it with us though, although they all ran into the kitchen last time I got us a couple slices:

I still can’t believe those few great days I had health-wise.  I would give anything to have them more often.

Today’s symptoms: Dealing with insomnia the last couple of nights, plus all of the extra stuff I did the last week are starting to take their toll.  Still had decent energy today and was able to last pretty long (Mike, my mother and I went to the Pen Centre to do a little shopping).  Tomorrow will be good!   Oh and by the way – it wasn’t my car remotes that were dead, it was my car battery!  I was sure I didn’t leave anything on.  Mike and I gave it a boost and drove around for about 20 minutes that night.  I tried to start the car the next day and it was dead again.  Ugh.  CAA came out that evening and replaced my battery.