A week on the ground...

Heya!!

Today I realised I haven't updated this blog for more than a week, so it's about time I give some updates. I wasn't at all busy with flying during the past week. My last flight was on Friday 19th. December, so it's been quite a while now. I'm flying again tomorrow and I hope I'll manage to get back to normal as soon as possible. It's not healthy to spend so many days without any flying, especially knowing I have to improve those landings! Yep, last time I had a couple of hard landings unfortunately, so I'll hope to improve them tomorrow. I also visited William's Gateway Airport last time, where I made some traffic patterns alongside some departing 707's! Anyway, we'll see how it goes tomorrow.

This week I also uploaded some photos of my first few days in Arizona. I know I had to upload them before but I've got quite a lot of photos to sort out. (And really, I'm not the type to get things done immediately ey! :-p ) Here's the link to the album.

First few days in Arizona

During the past week, I found some time to go a bit around the place; (which adds to more and more photos to be uploaded). On Sunday, we visited the Commemorative Air Force Museum which is here in Mesa. It was a great day and I enjoyed every minute of it. It's a museum full of old aircraft, some of which are also in flying condition. Below are two photos, one with a P-51 Mustang and the other on the rear side guns of the B-17 Flying Fortress (which is also in flying condition) We also got to know about another aviation museum in Tucson, which I want to visit one day.

The day before, on Saturday, we went to a place called 'Fountain Hills'. There's a huge fountain which goes off every hour, and overall it's quite a nice relaxing place. As regards Christmas, (btw, Merry Christmas to everyone... belated I know, but better late than never :-p ), basically I spent Christmas here with some of my mates. We went to Midnight Mass together (for a change, I slept) and then had Christmas Breakfast here together. On Christmas Day we also made a meal here together, so basically I spent my Christmas at our flat with my friends. But I enjoyed it. The day after Christmas, we went to the Apache Trail, which is a road going through mountains and valleys, with very nice scenic views. We spent a whole day there and we only managed to see part of the whole trail. So we might go again one day. Below is a photo of me out there.On Sunday we went to a theme park called 'Castle Coasters'. It was fun, even though the rides weren't so 'thrilling'. There was also a go-kart race (which was too slow, but still fun). We enjoyed it. In the evening, I discovered that I wasn't flying on Monday (today) and so I decided to go to 'Out of Africa' with Josef. It's a wildlife preserve with a lot of animals running around (behing fences of course!!). There was a sort of Safari tour around some animals and it was great. There also was a show, 'Tiger Splash', with tigers playing around in a pond of water. And, there was also a 'Giant Snake Show' which I thought it wasn't a very good idea at first :-) But ye actually we ended near two big 'friendly' snakes. Below are two photos; one at 'Castle Coasters' and the other at 'Out of Africa'.

So, that was a bit of an update of what happened during the past week. I have loads of photos to sort out which I'll try to do as soon as possible. I need to get them organised in different albums on PicasaWeb. I'm also going to be away for New Year's Eve. We're going to Las Vegas!! So, not to be late again, Happy New Year to all of you in advance!! I'm off now because tomorrow I have to wake up early o prepare for my flight

Till next time!!