It was a nice quiet day after such a busy one yesterday. I enjoyed listening to the thunder and the rain. Sometimes a grey day of storms and rain and is a little soothing. There was a tornado watch, and severe storm warnings, but nothing that serious actually came to Kokomo, so that's even better.
Kaylee had a voice lesson, Her voice teacher is SO much on her side about her getting into Encore. She brings it up each lesson. Today she had Kaylee sing her audition piece and said she did it perfectly, that she has no more input on it for her. Auditions are the end of April.
The bottoms of my shoes now have holes in them, so every time it rains my feet get wet when I walk outside. I have decided it's time to fix that now. ;)
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
The Aviate Day
The day started early, as I ran the 340 to Aurora. It was low IFR there this morning, then finally cleared up before I got there. A guy from there ran me home, and Steve was waiting with a roast beef sandwich for me for lunch, prior to my lessons all starting up. I flew from 2-4, 4-5:30, and 5:30-7:30, home around 9:15 pm.
What took me so long from 7:30 to home? I was just leaving when one of the Glenndale guys pulled up in a car and asked if I had a Bonanza tow bar. I knew we had a stack of tow bars, and I searched through both our main hangars and couldn't find them. So I texted Steve, went around to two different hangars and finally found a tow bar that would work. Success. I waited around for an hour until the Bonanza arrived, then secured it and put it away for the pilot and his wife, who had been flying for the last 11 hours (including fuel stops), they were exhausted and wobbly. So I sent them home and finished putting stuff away myself before heading to get dinner and then home.
A lot of my students are in the same place right now--pre-solo stuff. Some of them are just now starting to work on the pattern, others aren't there yet. My 2-4 was a young lady on her 4th or so lesson, struggling a little on the basics. My 4-5:30 was another young lady, and this one is a bit more familiar with bumpy days and airplanes. Kaylee went up for a little over an hour, and she took it on. She did the preflight with just two questions, got us in the air, does well at most of the basics, so we moved into some slow flight, steep turns, and we'd already done power off stalls. So she's moving through pretty quickly. This dumb Spring weather has stopped us from flying every day like we'd planned on. Instead we've only gotten in two flights. Tomorrow is going to rain all day too, knocking that day out of the running. Friday doesn't look good. Sunday and Monday are supposed to rain. Saturday is supposed to be gusty and overcast. *sigh* We only have two weeks and the weather is not cooperating...but just in the two lessons we've had, I was impressed with what she took on and picked up. Now, of course she's had plenty of time to gather info by osmosis, and she's done plenty of straight and level flying in the air and even a landing here and there, so that helps, but she is picking up pretty fast. We had fun, even flew circles over Nathan's house for awhile as what she thought was a break but is still practicing. ;)
She stole my sunglasses because she forgot her own. I wouldn't let any other student steal my glasses. ;) She also hit my rear end, something else I can't recall any other student ever doing. Of course I also grabbed and held her hand for awhile to get her to stop steering the yoke with two hands, and I've never done that to any other student either, so fair is fair. ;)
What took me so long from 7:30 to home? I was just leaving when one of the Glenndale guys pulled up in a car and asked if I had a Bonanza tow bar. I knew we had a stack of tow bars, and I searched through both our main hangars and couldn't find them. So I texted Steve, went around to two different hangars and finally found a tow bar that would work. Success. I waited around for an hour until the Bonanza arrived, then secured it and put it away for the pilot and his wife, who had been flying for the last 11 hours (including fuel stops), they were exhausted and wobbly. So I sent them home and finished putting stuff away myself before heading to get dinner and then home.
A lot of my students are in the same place right now--pre-solo stuff. Some of them are just now starting to work on the pattern, others aren't there yet. My 2-4 was a young lady on her 4th or so lesson, struggling a little on the basics. My 4-5:30 was another young lady, and this one is a bit more familiar with bumpy days and airplanes. Kaylee went up for a little over an hour, and she took it on. She did the preflight with just two questions, got us in the air, does well at most of the basics, so we moved into some slow flight, steep turns, and we'd already done power off stalls. So she's moving through pretty quickly. This dumb Spring weather has stopped us from flying every day like we'd planned on. Instead we've only gotten in two flights. Tomorrow is going to rain all day too, knocking that day out of the running. Friday doesn't look good. Sunday and Monday are supposed to rain. Saturday is supposed to be gusty and overcast. *sigh* We only have two weeks and the weather is not cooperating...but just in the two lessons we've had, I was impressed with what she took on and picked up. Now, of course she's had plenty of time to gather info by osmosis, and she's done plenty of straight and level flying in the air and even a landing here and there, so that helps, but she is picking up pretty fast. We had fun, even flew circles over Nathan's house for awhile as what she thought was a break but is still practicing. ;)
Checking the fuel levels
Checking the checklist prior to removing the pitot tube cover
She stole my sunglasses because she forgot her own. I wouldn't let any other student steal my glasses. ;) She also hit my rear end, something else I can't recall any other student ever doing. Of course I also grabbed and held her hand for awhile to get her to stop steering the yoke with two hands, and I've never done that to any other student either, so fair is fair. ;)
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Rainy Grey Days
It's been a quietly busy few days of minimal flying. Kaylee and I haven't gotten any more in mostly due to weather. We could have sneaked some low level stuff in this afternoon, but neither of us had it in us this time. Tomorrow looks good though and I plan on going up with her in the afternoon.
Yesterday I flew in the Super Decathlon, a little checkride prep. I hadn't been in that plane in several years. I remembered how much I hated its seat belt. It takes so much effort to get buckled in I was seriously tempted to just not wear the thing at all. :p
Today Steve was out working hard, Kaylee had a friend over yesterday and this morning, and I stayed in and took care of house stuff, email responses, laundry, dishes, you know, stuff. I've had a terrible time being motivated lately, but tomorrow I should be busy flying, so that'll probably help...
Yesterday I flew in the Super Decathlon, a little checkride prep. I hadn't been in that plane in several years. I remembered how much I hated its seat belt. It takes so much effort to get buckled in I was seriously tempted to just not wear the thing at all. :p
Today Steve was out working hard, Kaylee had a friend over yesterday and this morning, and I stayed in and took care of house stuff, email responses, laundry, dishes, you know, stuff. I've had a terrible time being motivated lately, but tomorrow I should be busy flying, so that'll probably help...
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Saturday
It was nice to sleep in this morning a little. :)
Several folks came out to the airport today to work on BOB, Nathan and Steve worked on the T-6 cowling, folks were cleaning up parts, and in general being productive. Justin cooked up some delicious burgers for lunch and brats for dinner. Kaylee slept in, and then I told her it was work time, and to start in on her driver's ed ground school. She can only put in 3 hours a day towards it, so I told her she had to put in 3 hours a day. She got her 3 hours in today, and then I brought her out to the airport and we did a flight lesson.
In the past, our flying has been more laid back. Learning by osmosis, little bits here and there. The last time and this time, I told her I was her instructor now, and she was a student, and we were getting down to business. We just went back to basics again. She's like many young students, especially female ones in my experience. There's a saying that isn't popular because it's politically incorrect, but that doesn't stop it from being true in majority. Obviously individuals are individuals and not pigeon holed, but the saying goes that many times a CFI has a hard time getting a male's skills to match his confidence level, and a female's confidence to match her skill level. She has enough time flying around in the air to be good at it when she relaxes and just does it. :)
Brats for dinner, home around 8...relax.
Several folks came out to the airport today to work on BOB, Nathan and Steve worked on the T-6 cowling, folks were cleaning up parts, and in general being productive. Justin cooked up some delicious burgers for lunch and brats for dinner. Kaylee slept in, and then I told her it was work time, and to start in on her driver's ed ground school. She can only put in 3 hours a day towards it, so I told her she had to put in 3 hours a day. She got her 3 hours in today, and then I brought her out to the airport and we did a flight lesson.
In the past, our flying has been more laid back. Learning by osmosis, little bits here and there. The last time and this time, I told her I was her instructor now, and she was a student, and we were getting down to business. We just went back to basics again. She's like many young students, especially female ones in my experience. There's a saying that isn't popular because it's politically incorrect, but that doesn't stop it from being true in majority. Obviously individuals are individuals and not pigeon holed, but the saying goes that many times a CFI has a hard time getting a male's skills to match his confidence level, and a female's confidence to match her skill level. She has enough time flying around in the air to be good at it when she relaxes and just does it. :)
Brats for dinner, home around 8...relax.
Lovely Ann with her birthday cookie :)
Justin G took these of Kaylee and I in the 172.
You can see her using the checklist in there.
On take-off roll.
Friday, March 24, 2017
Go West
Thankfully the day went safely and according to plan. I had to get out there really early to be fueled up and ready to go asap, and fortunately the fuel truck ran, everything got done in a timely manner, and we launched a few minutes early even.
The flight over was smooth and uneventful. The airport I was going into had a 3700' runway, which actually would have been shorter in the 340 than the Cheyenne, which is kind of funny. The clouds were supposed to be around 800-1000', but of course came down to 400' by the time I got there. Their lowest approach came down to 300', so it wasn't too far from ceiling minimums. It was raining a bit, nothing terrible, and it was windy. It was also, truly, in the middle of nowhere. There was a runway, and a building, and the building was open (thank you Lord!) and inside you could turn the heat up off of 55 degrees (whew!), and a restroom, and wifi, and it was clean and empty as can be. I was just fine with that, even though there was no vending machine. Their site said no courtesy car, but when I got there, there was a book with two keys in it sitting out, and the keys went to two old cars sitting in the parking lot. Now we're talking! I grab the Ford because it looks newer--until you get inside. The battery light is on, but it starts, so that's good, right? It's an old police car, as you can see the stenciled letters "POL" faded on the one side. The seat belt didn't work, the windshield wipers didn't work, and the inside was covered in years of Nebraska dust, dirt and grit. I pulled up my phone to see where the nearest restaurants were. It came up with one place to eat. I drove to it. It was closed. And it was a bar and grill. That was it, in the whole town, other than chips and candy bars at the gas station. It's great. Albion, Nebraska, truly in the middle of God's rolling earth and not much else! We were only there for about an hour though, and then it was time to head to Yankton, South Dakota. Took off into the murk, climbed up to 17,000', leveled off for a whole 60 seconds or so, and started the descent back into Yankton. Another RNAV approach there, but the ceilings were higher. As I'm on short final of this approach, with decent winds, having just broken out of the clouds, a guy comes on the radio and says "Cheyenne on final, Yankton Unicom" I'm like "Yeeees??" I'm trying to land here, man. He said "Be advised there is a huge flock of seagulls off to your left." I thought "okay", I didn't see them, but thanks. I roll out, and poof, the sky is filled with large white birds. I mean FILLED. He wasn't kidding about the huge flock! He drove his truck down there before I landed to chase them to the other end, and it's a darned good thing. Those weren't little sparrows and it wasn't just a couple of them. When I left there, he'd chased most of them away again, but still about 2 dozen of them flew at and in front of me on takeoff before I was heading into the clouds, and I actually leveled off at one point to go under some and then climbed up like crazy to go over others. Not super cool, there. I don't know how many seagulls it would take, but I don't want to know, either, thank you.
These airports were so remote I had to call on my cell phone and get my clearance that way. It took them forever in Nebraska. In S. Dakota it went a little faster, but still. Man that took awhile!
The trip home I went up high, got down to 500 lbs per hour of fuel burn, had an okay tailwind, and was on top of the weather and turbulence. I still get a giggle out of listening to the airline pilots below me. I'd filed for 39,000', and when I got up to 35,000', the controller said "Um, how long is it going to take you to get to 390?" I told her, and she said "Oh! Well, okay, you're cleared on up to 390." Thank you very much. :p A Southwest jet flew over the top of me by 1000', so I took a couple pictures of him going by. I got asked about 4 times for ride reports at my altitude for other airliners. I noticed at one point I'd started getting a bit of the wah-wahs. My props were out of sync. So I pulled one back a bit, and nothing happened. The props were "frozen". I could pull them all the way to idle and they wouldn't move. Not a problem as long as everything kept running appropriately, but not great in general. So when I started my descent, I checked them every 1000' down. They finally started moving again around 27,000'. I noted that the temps at 39,000' were -50F, so it was plenty cold up there. I wish I'd thought to videotape that, as the prop people don't believe it is happening, but I didn't...
Back at Kokomo the winds were gusting to 35 knots, but they weren't that far off the runway, and you know, after a couple of those other landings recently, nothing else has felt much like a challenge. Maybe it will be again after I get all rusty, but for now, buddy, that plane handles winds just fine.
On my descent through Grissom's airspace, there were two A-10s that passed right by me too. I couldn't get a photo of them, but that was pretty awesome. :)
When I got home, we left shortly thereafter to have dinner at Grindstone's with Cathy and Lon and Ann to celebrate her birthday. Afterwards we went back to Ann's and had a cookie cake and sat around and visited for awhile until we all became so tired we had to hang it up.
Right now Kaylee is texting me about a movie she is watching in which planes are stalling and falling for two minutes straight to the ground. She's like "Mom, it doesn't take that long to recover from a stall. These guys suck." Hahahaha!
Climbing up through the clouds.
On the ground in Nebraska
There was an empty room with a metal table and chairs, and this Mustang hanging from the ceiling diving down. Mustang and Cheyenne in one shot seemed appropriate.
See, you can see the "PO" partially under "Albion" on the car. lol
Battery ligth on, but you can't really get the scope of the dust and dirt in here from this.
This is the one road, "Main St." in Albion. The school was at the other end of the road.
The one restaurant that came up as anywhere close to this area. The Time-Out Bar 7 Grill.
The new-ish building out there.
Posted in the pilot's area. If you need anything, call the Sheriff. Misspelled. Love it.
On top at 39,000', which looks like on top at 4,000' too.
Southwest airliner going by just above me.
Just a partial cockpit view...
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Thursday
Not feeling very interesting today, either. :) Had one of our people pass his Commercial checkride, which is good. I flew with a couple people today, and then ended up hitching a ride to Muncie to pick up the Cheyenne. That didn't go as planned. I couldn't get there until late because of Kaylee's voice lesson. I got the line guy to stay after to fuel me up when I got back, but then my ride over to Muncie was 30 minutes late...he was in the Viking. When he got there, we all got in, And then it wouldn't start. So we all got back out, and took the 172 over instead.
I took a guy with me in the Cheyenne, because why not. But now we got back too late for the line guy, so I have to get out there extra early and top off for a trip to Nebraska and then South Dakota, Weather, well, we'll see. Not super pretty, hopefully not super un-pretty either...
Aaron and I in front of the Cheyenne.
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Wednesday
This was a really long day for both Steve and I. Kaylee took a nap after school so it must have been long for her, too. :)
I was up early and took the Cheyenne over to Muncie. That was fun. Just me and 800 lbs of fuel a side, I tried to do a max performance takeoff and couldn't bring myself to pitch up much more than 140 kts. That thing...heh.
I had a student picking me up in his airplane at Muncie, and we were going to go on an IFR flight to practice that. When I got to Muncie, he texted me and said he'd run his battery down trying to start his airplane and he couldn't get it going. Meanwhile, EVERYBODY and their brother was texting, calling, messaging and emailing me about a ton of different stuff. MBros was contacting me about an upcoming flight with back and forth stuff, three or four students were talking back and forth about various needs they had, Steve and I were going back and forth, the guy who was supposed to be picking me up was going back and forth, the maintenance guys and I were going back and forth, another guy was going between me and Steve with questions about a last minute flight he was doing--my phone got hot and my battery went down to 60% by 9:30 a.m.! When I found out I didn't have a ride home yet, I went into the restaurant and ordered breakfast. Why not, right?! Then the RG was sent over with someone else, to come get me. I got back in time for lunch. When we got home from lunch, we both turned around and went back to the airport. I flew from 2-4 and 4-6:30. I was in the same plane for both. First flight was tiring but went fine. Second flight, on the mag check, I got an excessive RPM drop, and I couldn't burn it off. So we parked it and got the other plane out, which was only free because Steve's guy canceled. I'd filled the first plane up with fuel because we were going to Muncie to practice tower field takeoffs and landings, which often takes 2-3 hours, to get there, practice a few dual, get out and let him do 3 solo ones to a full stop and taxi back, then home. The second plane had 22 gallons of gas. So now I have under 3 hours of fuel. We take off and go over to Muncie, and the fellow is overwhelmed, and rusty, and the winds are kicking up to 17 knots and the tower is having people land on the runway with a 60 degree crosswind instead of the 30 degree crosswind. I request the other runway. They move us over. Student is doing better but still not to where I'm going to get out of the airplane. Now he's stressed out, and annoyed, and didn't get done what he needed to get done, and I feel bad but I'm not going to send him off on his own when I'm counting down the fuel and concerned about the winds and his skill level. So we go home. Where I have more messages, questions, etc. waiting for me.
Just one of those days!
Steve's was worse, as he was dealing with some of the same things I was, but more on top of it. Just a long day. Now tomorrow I get to get up early again. And the day after that I get to get up early again and go to Nebraska. I ought to get to bed, in fact...
*sigh*
I was up early and took the Cheyenne over to Muncie. That was fun. Just me and 800 lbs of fuel a side, I tried to do a max performance takeoff and couldn't bring myself to pitch up much more than 140 kts. That thing...heh.
I had a student picking me up in his airplane at Muncie, and we were going to go on an IFR flight to practice that. When I got to Muncie, he texted me and said he'd run his battery down trying to start his airplane and he couldn't get it going. Meanwhile, EVERYBODY and their brother was texting, calling, messaging and emailing me about a ton of different stuff. MBros was contacting me about an upcoming flight with back and forth stuff, three or four students were talking back and forth about various needs they had, Steve and I were going back and forth, the guy who was supposed to be picking me up was going back and forth, the maintenance guys and I were going back and forth, another guy was going between me and Steve with questions about a last minute flight he was doing--my phone got hot and my battery went down to 60% by 9:30 a.m.! When I found out I didn't have a ride home yet, I went into the restaurant and ordered breakfast. Why not, right?! Then the RG was sent over with someone else, to come get me. I got back in time for lunch. When we got home from lunch, we both turned around and went back to the airport. I flew from 2-4 and 4-6:30. I was in the same plane for both. First flight was tiring but went fine. Second flight, on the mag check, I got an excessive RPM drop, and I couldn't burn it off. So we parked it and got the other plane out, which was only free because Steve's guy canceled. I'd filled the first plane up with fuel because we were going to Muncie to practice tower field takeoffs and landings, which often takes 2-3 hours, to get there, practice a few dual, get out and let him do 3 solo ones to a full stop and taxi back, then home. The second plane had 22 gallons of gas. So now I have under 3 hours of fuel. We take off and go over to Muncie, and the fellow is overwhelmed, and rusty, and the winds are kicking up to 17 knots and the tower is having people land on the runway with a 60 degree crosswind instead of the 30 degree crosswind. I request the other runway. They move us over. Student is doing better but still not to where I'm going to get out of the airplane. Now he's stressed out, and annoyed, and didn't get done what he needed to get done, and I feel bad but I'm not going to send him off on his own when I'm counting down the fuel and concerned about the winds and his skill level. So we go home. Where I have more messages, questions, etc. waiting for me.
Just one of those days!
Steve's was worse, as he was dealing with some of the same things I was, but more on top of it. Just a long day. Now tomorrow I get to get up early again. And the day after that I get to get up early again and go to Nebraska. I ought to get to bed, in fact...
*sigh*
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Spring Spring Spring Spring
Happy Birthday Ann! So young at heart and in spirit, one of the single most kind, loving people I am honored to call family. Love you!
Yesterday was the First Official Day of Spring, and it arrived with some serious storms, wind, and hail. I only got one flight in, after the worst of the weather passed, and then the clouds rolled in below pattern altitude, so we ended early on that one flight, too.
Today I flew the Viking on its test flight after annual. On take-off, I pulled the gear up, and didn't get the "gear up and locked" light. A little messing with it showed the bulb was working properly, when I switched it with a gear down light, which meant it was either the contact, or the gear wasn't coming up properly. My only concern was...will it go back DOWN properly. The thought of having to land it gear up did run through my mind for a flash, because of the plane I was in, but of course it was just the contact for the bulb, the gear itself was fine. Everything else was just fine, and when I got down the guys fixed the contact issue, and it's ready to go.
After lunch I had two students from 3-7:30 pm. They were both good flights, but on that 3 pm one, we were up flying around when a front moved through. We went from 10 knot winds to wind shear and over 30 knot winds right on final there. It made for an interesting landing, and then the winds were past and it was calm again. Good old mother nature, but it was a good experience for him.
I got about 3 hours of sleep last night, which means I was exhausted all day, but now that it's night, am awake again. Good ole insomnia! :p
Yesterday was the First Official Day of Spring, and it arrived with some serious storms, wind, and hail. I only got one flight in, after the worst of the weather passed, and then the clouds rolled in below pattern altitude, so we ended early on that one flight, too.
Today I flew the Viking on its test flight after annual. On take-off, I pulled the gear up, and didn't get the "gear up and locked" light. A little messing with it showed the bulb was working properly, when I switched it with a gear down light, which meant it was either the contact, or the gear wasn't coming up properly. My only concern was...will it go back DOWN properly. The thought of having to land it gear up did run through my mind for a flash, because of the plane I was in, but of course it was just the contact for the bulb, the gear itself was fine. Everything else was just fine, and when I got down the guys fixed the contact issue, and it's ready to go.
After lunch I had two students from 3-7:30 pm. They were both good flights, but on that 3 pm one, we were up flying around when a front moved through. We went from 10 knot winds to wind shear and over 30 knot winds right on final there. It made for an interesting landing, and then the winds were past and it was calm again. Good old mother nature, but it was a good experience for him.
I got about 3 hours of sleep last night, which means I was exhausted all day, but now that it's night, am awake again. Good ole insomnia! :p
The Viking
Gear swing check.
Coming down final for the last landing of the day around 7:45 pm.
Sunday, March 19, 2017
Cinderella
I hate it when I realize days have gone by without me posting anything. Not because I'm that interesting, but because I totally lost track of time!
Tuesday through Thursday I had students most of the day each day. Nice enough weather to get it done, and we are surprisingly busy for this time of year.
The rest of the weekend has been eaten up with Kaylee's musical, "Cinderella". Thursday evening was a "Parent's Night" event, where you could go and video tape, photograph, and watch a run-through. Friday night Mom & Ernie arrived, and Saturday was the first actual performance. Everyone got up late, so we went to Greentown to get breakfast/lunch at the Amish place in town...which has closed permanently. Boo. So we hit Cracker Barrel for an official by-then-lunch. Kaylee's program started at 4:30, so at 4 we met up with everyone out there.
The program went well. There are a lot of moving parts, a ton of kids involved, very detailed and nice background sets and props. For a high school production, it's pretty impressive. I have soooo many pictures. Kaylee had a brief singing solo for a line at the beginning, and then was a ballroom dancer. So she danced the "Gavot" in the background, and then was up front on stage with 3 other couples for a featured dance, the Waltz. She was a girl who wanted to try on the shoe the Prince was holding, and then she was a "Petal Girl", tossing petals with 3 other girls. Very graceful and mature looking. She had a couple of lifts. She missed the lift on the waltz on Saturday, and nailed it on Sunday. I'm going to have to put a few pages of photos up because I can't pick...
Saturday evening 8 of us went out to dinner afterwards for a little celebratory evening out after a successful play. Kaylee had her own cast party to go to, until 11 pm, which they host in a church with lots of adults. After today's production, they had a pizza party for everyone there at the school as they tore down the sets and such. It's always a little hard when the production is over with, folks feel a little let down and sad. But it was a worthy effort and a really nice play. We all enjoyed it.
Tuesday through Thursday I had students most of the day each day. Nice enough weather to get it done, and we are surprisingly busy for this time of year.
The rest of the weekend has been eaten up with Kaylee's musical, "Cinderella". Thursday evening was a "Parent's Night" event, where you could go and video tape, photograph, and watch a run-through. Friday night Mom & Ernie arrived, and Saturday was the first actual performance. Everyone got up late, so we went to Greentown to get breakfast/lunch at the Amish place in town...which has closed permanently. Boo. So we hit Cracker Barrel for an official by-then-lunch. Kaylee's program started at 4:30, so at 4 we met up with everyone out there.
The program went well. There are a lot of moving parts, a ton of kids involved, very detailed and nice background sets and props. For a high school production, it's pretty impressive. I have soooo many pictures. Kaylee had a brief singing solo for a line at the beginning, and then was a ballroom dancer. So she danced the "Gavot" in the background, and then was up front on stage with 3 other couples for a featured dance, the Waltz. She was a girl who wanted to try on the shoe the Prince was holding, and then she was a "Petal Girl", tossing petals with 3 other girls. Very graceful and mature looking. She had a couple of lifts. She missed the lift on the waltz on Saturday, and nailed it on Sunday. I'm going to have to put a few pages of photos up because I can't pick...
Saturday evening 8 of us went out to dinner afterwards for a little celebratory evening out after a successful play. Kaylee had her own cast party to go to, until 11 pm, which they host in a church with lots of adults. After today's production, they had a pizza party for everyone there at the school as they tore down the sets and such. It's always a little hard when the production is over with, folks feel a little let down and sad. But it was a worthy effort and a really nice play. We all enjoyed it.
The first lift-Kaylee is in hot pink, third girl up on a shoulder.
The next several are the slow but graceful Gavot.
Next up is the waltz.
C'mon, this is adorable.
Petal Girls, scattering petals prior to the wedding.
A girl's skirt fell down here. Whoops!
The bows.
These next five came from the photographer pro there.
The whole cast!
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