We flew down to Long Beach to attend an AOPA meeting. This was my first time this deep into LA and to Long Beach. I flew IFR and had no issues on the way in. After the meeting, we took a bus to the coast and watched Red Bull's Flugtag, where people push crazy parade style floats off a ledge and into the water. Most are just crazy, but the intent is to see who can fly the farthest. A friend was involved in the world record flight in St. Paul and although I saw the test flights of the glider, I didn't get to see it at the event; so we went to the one in Long Beach instead. You can see a video of the record breaking flight here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Im8VtLQgh4). After the flugtag, we took the bus back to the airport and flew out to Catalina and had their tri-tip buffet. It was pretty good, but it was very expensive and the line was long (and they charge a $25 landing fee). We made it past the mountains south of Palmdale just as it started getting dark and flew up the Owen's valley in the dark. I haven't done much night flying out here due the mountains, but it was a nice flight.
Katie learned her first magic trick!
Katie enjoying her first EAA Airventure. She was a real trooper for the entire time.
As we were waiting out bad weather at Jon and Kandy's house, Katie got some music lessons. I was a little late with the camera though because she was doing a lot better earlier.
Crazy college friends.
With the airplane, we were able to visit some Saia family down in Belleville, IL. I also got very lucky that there's a aircraft mechanic in the family who very conveniently was able to clean up a fouled spark plug for me - thanks Jim.
Looks like I never posted this video on the blog. Here was our camping trip in Payson. Payson has excellent campsites right at the airport, but there isn't much to do there. There is a supposedly a lake not too far that you can walk to. Not a problem, we were there to relax anyways. We also took the dogs and flew over Meteor Crater on the flight home.
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