The wild blue yonder

[lisamoe]

Today Jesse got to go up in a small plane out in Owasso. There's some kind of program where local pilots volunteer to take kids 8-17 up in private planes and then answer their questions about aviation. R volunteered to take Jesse to that and since Dingo is too young to go, Mom and I took him to Chuck E Cheese so that he wouldn't feel like Jesse got to do something cool and he didn't. At 9:30 am on Saturday, Chuck E Cheese is really dead, so that was nice. It was unusually quiet. There were about 8 other people in the whole place. Jesse reported back that he loved his plane ride and by coincidence had gotten to go up in the same plane with two other boys who belong to one of his homeschooling groups.

The afternoon was busy but less exciting. We went to a "fall festival" in Sperry to watch my Mom's clogging group, went to Walmart and on the way back ate at White River Fish Market. When we got home, the boys and I made a white cake with cream cheese frosting and they had quite a lot of that for dessert. I also got to ride my scooter around the neighborhood just a little, to test out the recent repairs.

The headache I've had since Thursday lifted today, which was extremely pleasant. Also pleasant was getting a little time to fix myself up tonight. I plucked my eyebrows ruthlessly, colored my hair, took a long hot shower, filed down the three nails I've managed to chip this week, re-did my nail polish and put my new incredibly soft flannel sheets on my bed. Of course the kids liked them too, so now I'm in the living room and the bed is full of children, but I'll remedy that before I'm ready to lie down.

Comments

[gentlemaitresse.livejournal.com]

There's some kind of program where local pilots volunteer to take kids 8-17 up in private planes and then answer their questions about aviation.

It's called Young Eageles. He should get a certificate and stuff, and his name will go in the official Young Eagles book. :-)

[lisamoe.livejournal.com]

His Dad has the certificate and such since he took him. Jesse has been very interested in airplanes and flying this year, so it was a nice opportunity. He's been on several commercial flights starting when he was 3, but he'd never been in a small plane before.

[bills-anita.livejournal.com]

i wonder if Bill would let me put the flannels on yet?? but then, i'd never get the dogs out of the bed.....

[sweets77.livejournal.com]

i had to get a new lj...long story of why i had to...will explain in a blog