Waking up in a strange house is usually a disconcerting experience, but in this case, it was heavenly. The little (?) apartment above the shop was warm, quiet, cozy and comfortable. It was a struggle to get out of that bed. Which may explain why I was so late getting down for breakfast.
The kids slept in a bit. Mostly. Dad was up early, as usual. After an hour or two - or three? - of puttering around with breakfast, we ended up around the table looking at something on the Internet. That seems to be the modern way of things, these days. Networking with the world through the laptops / iPods / iPads / i Phones. Not a lot of conversations, normally, but we made do. As you can tell, we had a wonderful time. What were we looking at? (Probably cat videos.)
Not sure what Mary was talking about here, but she inserted her patented air-quotes to whatever it was. She's going to be a professor some day. Or a politician. An honest politician, of course.
Shane asked me at one point if I wanted to go over to Dallas for a while to visit a flight simulator. He's applying for an FAA position and wanted to re-familiarize himself with a particular aircraft. Sure. Twist my arm to see if I want to go to an airport and hang out near a simulator. (Didn't take much twisting at all, as you can imagine.)
So we went. Drove all the way from Abilene to Dallas, hung out at the FBO yakking with the instructors, then went outside to sit in a dual Cessna Citation to stare at the controls and pretend we were flying. Then it was time to go back inside to the simulator where a real instructor took him through a simulated flight test to prepare for the real thing.
Then we drove all the way back to Abilene.
Then I got sick.
All night long.
Ick.
The kids slept in a bit. Mostly. Dad was up early, as usual. After an hour or two - or three? - of puttering around with breakfast, we ended up around the table looking at something on the Internet. That seems to be the modern way of things, these days. Networking with the world through the laptops / iPods / iPads / i Phones. Not a lot of conversations, normally, but we made do. As you can tell, we had a wonderful time. What were we looking at? (Probably cat videos.)
Not sure what Mary was talking about here, but she inserted her patented air-quotes to whatever it was. She's going to be a professor some day. Or a politician. An honest politician, of course.
So we went. Drove all the way from Abilene to Dallas, hung out at the FBO yakking with the instructors, then went outside to sit in a dual Cessna Citation to stare at the controls and pretend we were flying. Then it was time to go back inside to the simulator where a real instructor took him through a simulated flight test to prepare for the real thing.
Then we drove all the way back to Abilene.
Then I got sick.
All night long.
Ick.
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