Dinner and a.....?

Last night, my uncle and his wife invited us to dinner. She is from Puerto Rico and makes this wonderful dish called Pesteles (not sure of spelling). It involves pork, yuca or banana dough wrapped up in banana leaves and boiled. It is usually a three-day process to make this, but she managed to do it in two. My husband contributed some fish, so we tried that as a filling too. Aside from getting the ingredients ready, the wrapping part takes forever. So she showed us how to do it and we spent a couple of hours wrapping these things up. Then we cooked them and ate them. They were WONDERFUL! And we got a couple of bags to bring home too!

During the course of dinner, my uncle asked me if Z-boy had ever flown. The answer is no, but he will be flying to DC in October with me and my husband. My uncle has his own plane and flies with the Civil Air Patrol. So he asked if Z-boy would like to fly on Monday morning.


They walked out to the plane...


Got strapped in and a headset on...


And taxiied around the field a bit. But when it came time to actually fly, Z-boy couldn't do it. He was a little too scared. So my uncle brought him back to the FBO building and suggested that maybe I would like to go for a spin...

So I did!

When I was living in Oklahoma, I used to fly. It was a terrific escape from my unhappy life down on the ground. I also flew a little C-150, affectionately named "Junior".

This picture was taken as I came in for a landing. Me flying, instructor beside me. When I came to a stop, he got out and told me to fly around the field by myself.


My first solo.