Back at home

From the Lava beds the boys and I spent three days or so in Terrace visiting friends and winding down. It was nice to not move for that time and My friend Candi cooked us dinnier for three nights in a row. I was joking with her that if she kept feeding us that we may not go away. We had appointment to keep though, so we eventually had to go. We had to be in Burns Lake on the 31 of july for a family reunion. Once in Burns Lake the boys were reunited with there Mom. It was neat to see them and how excited they got when Laura got there. We spent the night at my sisters and the next day The family, whole once again, took off to the family reunion at my cousin Mac Blackwell's place. It was nice to catch up with relatives and relax around a campfire. Mac has a very nice piece of property and runs a floatplane business from there. He also has a rather narrow landing strip in his back yard. He has a De Havlind Beaver on floats and two challenger's on wheels (an advanced ultra light).

Zach and I were fortunate enough to get a ride in the challenger. They are really cheap to run and were flying all weekend. My cousin Gerry (I have lots of cousins that fly) let me take the contorls for about 45 minutes. I haven't taken the controls in an aircraft for any longer than 30 seconds or so. I found it a real challenge (no pun intended) to keep the light little aircraft straight but Gerry said I did quite well since I had never flow before.

So as I said before we made it back home and cleaned the truck and trailer and we are unwinding. I'll post a few more picture in the few little while and then I think this trip report will be wrapped up.

If you read this entire document, cudo's to ya, it is really long but you have reached the end now and don't have to read my ramblings any more ;)

Jeff