Flying
Well, last night we went flying again…
Shane, Jarred, Zach and I all flew down to Dallas and circled the downtown area from about 1000 feet. I got a couple of photos and some video with my camera but it’s too dark to really make out much in the pictures. It was really cool, but I wish we could go during the daytime so we could actually see stuff on the ground.
After we got bored of flying around, we landed at the Addison airport, got a courtesy car and went out to eat at the local Two Rows Restaurant.
Shane tried to be friendly to the (ugly) waitress and asked her if she wanted to go flying with him sometime. She said she was too scared but I bet she was just using her fear of flying as an excuse or something. At any rate, it was kinda funny. She couldn’t figure out why we had flown to Addison when we could have just driven for a fraction of the cost since it’s only an hour away. Hah. Silly people. Because flying is more fun!
Shane decided he wanted to sit in the back of the plane on the flight home so I got stuck at the controls again, which was nice.
It took me a couple minutes to get the feel of the plane again (hey I’ve only flown once before) but after that it was smooth sailing. Jarred sat in the co-pilot seat and helped navigate and keep track of other airplanes and the radio. Every now and then he’d give me a tip on what to do next, and when we got back to Sherman, we split the landing process about 50/50 since it was kind of windy and I’m still not that experienced.
Other than that, it was a fairly un-eventful night. I got home at around 12:30 (I was scared I wouldn’t get back till 2:00 or something). When I woke up at 7:00 this morning I was kind of tired but a cup of coffee and some breakfast perked me up.
That’s all for now. Stay tuned for more exciting (or at least they’re exciting to me) adventures!!
July 14th, 2005 at 11:37 am
Wow. That sounds like a blast.
That waitress probably didn’t believe you. haha.
July 14th, 2005 at 12:15 pm
Yeah… but Shane and Jarred were both wearing their blue airport shirts with their name tags and everything (they actually work at the grayson airport) so it was a little bit more believeable I guess.