This morning was absolutely great...
I started off the day heading out to the airport to get another few laps around the patch in before our friends come to visit next week and I play aerial tour guide. The day was absolutely beautiful - severe clear, no wind. My takeoffs and landings were good, as was my slow flight. I even made a pretty good simulated engine-out landing.
After flying, I returned home and picked Jeanie up and we went to Sandy Bottoms for a yummy breakfast. The meal could not have been more idyllic. We sat outside looking out over the beach to the gently lapping waves of the ocean, soothing smooth jazz playing in the background, with the outside temperature "just right." As we sat there, we both felt like we were on a wonderful vacation.
After breakfast, we took a walk on the beach. The walk was highlighted by the appearance of a pod of porpoises which seemed to keep pace with us as we strolled, and by our being able to help out a single mom and her two kids get their kites up and flying. The kids were really cute, and the kites were really cool. One of the kites looked like a toucan, and the other looked like an F-15. We probably helped some - letting the kids know where they should stand relative to their mom and the wind, and explaining when they should run a bit to help launch the kite, and how to play out the kite string. The fact that the wind seemed to pick up just about the time we stopped to help didn't hurt either.
It's days like today that make all the rest worthwhile.
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Posted by David at March 05, 2006 05:25 PM