Greetings from Florida

I thought I might not be terribly busy this week...WRONG! It's been kind of nonstop! A quick recap:

Friday we flew down to Charleston with a fuel stop at Hampton Rhodes Executive Airport in Virginia in about 7 hours total travel time.

On Sunday we took off from Charleston, and promptly turned around back to land on the same runway when VFR conditions had change to IFR as the ceiling had dropped dramatically.

On Monday we left around 6:30am drove a little under 7 hours in our rental car from Charleston to Winter Haven, FL as the weather had not improved (in fact it had become worse) from the day before. We made it in time for lunch and dinner with the Cardinal Flyers!

Tuesday we went bird watching at a former cattle ranch, visited Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings at Florida Southern College, and drove around Central Florida take in various sites. Sprawl is the name of the game here, as is strip mall, but if you take the time, there are many charming sights to be seen, and I've enjoyed it in spite of myself.

Today we finally made it to Sun N' Fun, where I enhanced my sunburn, saw lots of cool planes, and unfortunately missed the airshow portion of the day due to more nasty weather. But my dad promises me that he'll take me to the Quonset airshow in June, so I am looking forward to that.

Tomorrow, my mom flies home, and I am off to NYC, then PA, then back home on Monday. I hope to post some recaps with images, but for now that's more effort than I want to go into, so I'll see you then!