Long time, no blog ...

...but I have a good excuse. Sorta. Well, not really, but I'm here now. So I took the red-eye to England on August 9th, yup, which means I landed on August 10th the day the terror raids went down in London. Luckily, we were one of the last planes to land before Heathrow shut down and didn't have to be diverted elsewhere in Europe, but unlucky in that we spent 4 hours on the runway waiting for the airport to reopen. Fun times indeed. Poor Sarah was stuck at Heathrow waiting to pick us up and was surely loosing her mind as her groom-to-be was also trying to make it back to the UK from Northern Ireland. Needless to say, drama was the order of the day. Once we got out of Heathrow and Simo was delivered to a local Royal Air Force base after much ado, we were off to the rehearsal(4 hours late, but whaddaya gonna do).

The wedding was beautiful and the reception an absolute riot complete with an Elvis impersonator. But the best part of the day was getting to see my friends from Diego Garcia again; I can't believe it's been 7 years...where does the time go? The other great part of the day was that my Dad wore his Dress Blues for the first time in 24 years and the numerous Royal Marines in attendance treated him like a star. I should have some pictures up soon (well, as soon as I find the USB cable as it's gone missing a.g.a.i.n.).

On a related missing USB cable note, does anyone want a cute litte brown cat? She's lovely, but she does have a bad habit of playing with important things (like USB cables) and leaving them in very inconvenient places (like the fireplace, under the couch, the garbage disposal, etc).

Not much else has gone on since I've been back from England, just working and enjoying the waning days of summer. G had a short overnight in LA a few weeks back and we were able to have breakfast together and that was nice. He's got a busy few weeks ahead of him with a checkride to prepare for and some Navy requirements to get out of the way, but after that I'm hoping to make another trip to CRP to get some more flying in.

I hope everyone is doing well...drop me a line and let me know what's going on in your world.