It's been a busy last few weeks. 3 weekends ago was the corpus christi trip and besides one of my tires blowing out on me it was a great time. we got there late friday night and came back sunday. We got some great seafood in port aransas and hung out at the port A beach most of saturday and then some of the local bars that evening.
That week I flew a couple times and they flights went okay then the next weekend I met up with Nick, Andrew and Chris in San Antonio. It was awesome seeing them for the weekend and we saw a lot of the city and had a good time on the River Walk. On Friday we saw terminator at the rivercenter mall then relaxed on the riverwalk. We attempted to do Six Flags on Saturday but 5 minutes after we got into the park it started pooring - so that was a bust but we hung out for a couple hours and then came back had dinner at the tower restaurant which is always very cool, then enjoyed the riverwalk nightlife.
Sunday we headed out to the La Cantera shops for a couple hours then got some lunch. Megan wasn't feeling well that day so we went and get her checked out while the others chilled at the hotel. She was fine, just some kind of virus.
Monday I dropped Nick and Chris at the airport as Andrew took an earlier flight and came back to laughlin and ran some errands. That week I flew 2x and had a sim and also got some new tires put on my car.
This past weekend I had to drive Megan out to College Station where she's coaching a swim camp for kids at Texas A&M for a month. It was a looong drive there and back but I got to see some of the campus which is very nice and saw the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library / Museum. It was a very nice experience there and was happy we stopped by. I enjoyed the array of food and shopping there on Saurday while Megan did some coaching stuff then I said goodbye Sunday morning for the 360 mile trek back to Laughlin.
This week is only a 3-day Flying week as Thurs,Fri are no fly days for T-1's for some reason but somehow we got a ridiculous amount of jets and our whole class is flying out-and-backs mon,tues,wed which is pretty intense and basically means 12-hour days for those days so I'm still putting in a good 40 hour week! Yesterday we flew down to Corpus and I did a PAR approach at Navy Kingsville. This is where the ATC guy is watching you on radar and can guide you down laterally and vertically to the point that there could be overcast clouds 150' above the ground and he could get you to the runway with aural instructions - it's pretty neat. That went well and I flew a couple approaches into Corpus Int'l and we stopped in and had dinner at the texas roudhouse in corpus which is a treat. (being that there's nothing in Del Rio) Then Barry and I switched seats and he did the night flight back. I'll fly the night portion tonight and we'll be deciding where to go in about an hour.
That about covers the important parts. This weekend my buddy Will invited me out to Austin as his dads going to be out there reffing a golf match so I may do that although I've been doing a lot of weekend traveling so I'll mull it over a bit more.
I also talked to my units training office today to see when they'd have dates for my follow-on training and they said it would probably be another month argh. I really want to start planning some fun stuff to do when I'm done here but they're holding me back since I don't know when I'll be doing c-5 school and survival. Anyway - I'll be counting the days - adios.
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