Lizzy McFly

The plan for the second day of our journey was to have brekkie then hop in the planes for a 9:00 departure from Ottawa.  We lucked out with the perfect weather.  There was a bit of a head wind, but only about 5 km/hr.  With a loaded plane (gear and gas), we took off and headed for PEI.

Not long after leaving Rockliffe Airport, we passed over the nearby Gatineau Airport:

Our only stop before Summerside, PEI was Riviere-du-Loup Airport, about halfway through our five hour flight.  The scenery was pretty neat and quite a change from Niagara:

I’ve never flown over a lake upon a hill:

It felt like it was only a 45 minute flight, but after flying for over two hours, we arrived at Riviere-du-Loup Airport:

I think we were the first plane to land, which was great because we could watch all of other folks come in.  Everyone fueled up then eagerly headed into the terminal to stretch our legs and have some lunch.

We heard a jet was on it’s way to do a low and over of the field.  Needless to say, we all ran outside to check it out:

Sweet!

Once we all nommed and discussed the next leg of the flight, it was time to head back to the birds and fire them up.

Soon into our flight, we passed by Quebec City – Bonjour!

I snapped this pic on the way there.  Of course, Donkay was with me.  This picture looks like one of those old 80’s portraits because of his reflection:

Pretty close, eh?  Tee hee!

The second leg of the flight seemed shorter than it actually was too.  I think part of the reason is that for the 99’s Gold Cup Air Rally, we have a bunch of questions to answer during our travels.  This is what I focused on quite a bit while Cheryl was flying (and while I wasn’t – she let me take control a few times.  Yea!)

Alas!  We arrived in PEI!

I’m not what type of sea-creature traps these are, but wow:

Coming in behind us was the float plane in our group:

And then we came upon our final destination – Summerside Airport:

This would be our home for the next three (or more depending on the weather) days.  Nice flying, Cheryl!

Aren’t we adorable in our awesome flight suits?  Hehe!

We had the plane fueled for the spot landing competition in the morning.  While waiting for the fuel garcon to finish up with the previous plane, Cheryl had me pose with this stunning background:

Everyone was quite weary, but we all headed into the hotel restaurant for a nice dinner and chat about our flight.  Afterwards, some of the group congregated in someone’s room for some more socializing and to wind down.  My body wasn’t quite up for it, so I just went to our room and prepared for a much anticipated sleep.

Yesterday’s symptoms:  I had to take some of my wake-up pills during the day, as expected.  I did quite well and the nerve pain was at it’s “normal” level – still painful but not the worst I’ve experienced.  Can’t complain about that!  Headache was “average” too. 

Today is actually day three of the trip, so I’ll try to catch up.  The blog entry for today’s events won’t be quite as long, as the excitement of the last two days caught up with me (again, as expected).  Stay tuned, my friends!