Nice weekend

So The week ended with an Instrument flight on Wednesday and a few more instrument sims to finish the week. But this now means I've been out of the front seat of the plane for contact for a week now - another awesome break in training. 

I feel funny complaining about not flying because it's honestly a big relief when I don't, mainly because I tend to get worked up for them. But anyway... yeah for the weekend I got up to San Antonio with some guys from our class and 7 of us stayed at our buddy Austin's families house as his dad is a contractor and currently residing in Georgia leaving they're house nice and empty. It was a really good time and one of the more refreshing weekends (minus when megan's here of course) and really forgot about pilot training for bout 36 hours. 

Friday night we hit the riverwalk for a couple hours and spent the majority of our time at the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner and drinks.

On Saturday, my buddy Jason and I took Austins truck and ran some errands. We hit up Mens Warehouse so i could get measured for my tux for Andrew's wedding and then ran by the quarry market and got some good chinese food (impossible to come by in Texas it seems) and played some darts at a pub watching some college football. That evening we hit a bar called the Flying Saucer which has a collection of about 80 beers on tap plus many more other rarities so this was quite a treat though I can't seem to resist ordering snake bites (half harp lager half woodchuck cider) when the ingredients are available. 

Then on Sunday the plan was to get back at a decent time to get things done but somehow we found ourselves behind schedule and then Austin got a call from a family member asking if we were coming to the San Antonio Airshow at Kelly airfield as we were just about to Kelly on the highway. Needless to say we were forced to pull in and enjoyed an awesome F-22 Demo, a great heritage flight with a Mustang, F-16, F-15 and F-22 - Very cool. Followed by the Blue Angels which I happen to find much cooler than the thunderbirds - sorry Air Force...

I also got to talk to a few C-5 guys in the San Antonio Reserve unit as they were letting folks walk through one of their galaxies and that was nice. One guy seemed convinced that my unit was converting to C-17's but I haven't heard anything about that so who knows. 

So it was a great weekend and now it's back to the grind. We have night flights this week so at some point I should get up for an hour and do some night flying which I've always very much enjoyed - maybe I can even enjoy it with an IP complaining in the back seat - we shall see.

I hope everyones doing well, Thanksgiving is fast approaching - then only 3 weeks after that for xmas followed by about a month until I track to T-1's.... can't come soon enough !

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