While the cat's away...

Mike here, Chrys has asked me to blog for a change so here goes.

Mom was out of town over the weekend visiting with some of her friends and took Truett with her. That left just Oliver and Dadoo to fend for themselves. We managed to survive and had a fun time to boot. I had planned a fun outing for the weekend while Oliver and I were alone and had been talking about it to him all week. He was really excited about it (as was I) and he talked about it frequently. Now I realize, the typical father son thing to do while mom is away is go to a baseball game or some other sporting event. But, we have done that already and I want to do that more when he is older and can better appreciate it. Instead, we did something that I have really wanted to do together that would indulge the love of airplanes that we share. We went to the airport to watch planes land. Admittedly, that is not something that everyone can love like we do, but given that I am an aspiring pilot with nearly enough hours

First Solo (after landing) - 2003

(but not nearly enough money or time) to be licensed, and Oliver's love of all things mechanical, especially things that fly, it works out nicely for us.

We headed out around 8:00 AM and drove out to the north end of Dallas Love Field to a park known as Bachman Lake Park. The jogging trail and road around the lake is literally just a few hundred feet from runway 13L. The "X" in the picture shows where we were sitting.

There is another area that is even closer to the taxiway. Here is a picture showing that location. All of this was outside any restricted area.
And the view:Here are some of the favorite shots from the outing:

Studying the airport diagram

Ahh, peaceful...

As it turns out, Saturday was also the Smithsonian Museum Free Admission Day so we also went to the Frontiers of Flight Museum just around the corner from where we were watching the planes land.

"I think I could get the hang of this, how hard could it be?"

It took more time to take off his shoes that he spent inside the bounce house.

"Dadoo, can we keep him?"

Beech E-17 "Staggerwing"
(Voted one of the ten sexiest planes)

Oliver's second favorite flying machine.

Someday?

I thoroughly enjoyed the day and I think Oliver did too. I look forward to the next one.

Mike