Lizzy McFly

Well things didn’t start off too good this morning.  When I crawled out of bed, so did my phone and smashed the screen.  Fortunately, it’s still working and the glass isn’t loose, so it should survive over the next few days.  The next issue was the weather.  It looked fine around St. Catharines and I could see across the lake to Toronto perfectly.  However, looking at my aviation weather app, things weren’t too good.  My buddy from the Flying Club was up for a flight and sent me this:

Nice wall of clouds.  Dang.  So the plan was to fly Vyctor to Oshawa to meet up with my Air Rally partner, Cheryl.  Since I couldn’t fly, I ended up driving.  Not nearly as fun!  It’s all good and the main thing is we were set to head out on this epic journey.

Getting things ready:

The weather was great where we were, so there were not issues flying to Ottawa to meet the other Rally folks.

As you know, I have Donkay as my flying partner.  Well, Cheryl has stuffed piggies.  We named this one after my cat Pinky:

Farewell, Oshawa Airport!  (Sorry for the blurry pic):

It took us a little over one and a half hours to get to Ottawa.

Had a tough time pushing her plane back onto the grass.  We did it though!

After I regained consciousness, we wandered over and met up with the other Rally-goers who had already arrived.  We had a complimentary BBQ, which was really nice.  You can see the pure joy in Donkay’s face:

There was an old cockpit of a military plane sitting near our gathering spot:

One of the members of the group was kind enough to drive us to our hotel.  We’re both sitting here, typing away and planning for the big day tomorrow.  In the meantime, Mike texted and said that he was over at my place, tending to the critters.  Now despite my last blog where I said you wouldn’t be seeing pics of the cats for a few days, well…..guess what?  You’re in luck!

There you have it!  Life is good.  I will try to do another blog tomorrow.  It’s going to be a very long day though.  There are about ten planes in the Air Rally, and we’re all taking off around 8:00.  We then have one stop about half way to PEI.  It’s about a four and a half hour flight in total.  I just hope my fatigue doesn’t cause any issues.  Paws crossed!

Today’s symptoms: I’m so happy I’m feeling quite good.  I had to take a few wake-up pills throughout the day, but other than that, things are good.  Bad nerve pain in my hands again.  It looks like it’s a symptom that is here to stay, as I’ve been dealing with it for many months now.  Like we used to say in the Army, adapt and overcome!  That I shall!