A busy weekend so far for the Robinson Family. Friday we were up to Oakland for the Christmas Carol train tour and an afternoon at the zoo. Saturday Kay took Arran to Moffett Federal Airfield for his first flight in a small plane.
The Young Eagles is an organization that promotes flying to youth. Harrison Ford is its chairman, although he was not around at this event.
Periodically, the local chapter of Young Eagles has a flying day where kids between the ages of 8 and 17 can learn about the mechanics of flight, how an airplane works and take a flight in an aircraft. There were several planes and a helicopter out on Jun 27th. Arran opted to fly in a plane rather than a helicopter. His pilot was John and he and another boy took a 20 minute flight with John that day.
Here is Arran (the head peeping out of the back seat) in the airplane as he started his taxi to the runway.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get close to the airplane for any good photographs.
After the flight, Arran said it was "Double Fun!!!"
After the flight, we headed downtown for lunch and then caught a version of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Nights Dream" which had Mayan Ushmal's instead of fairies and was set in a jungle near a Mayan ruin. Arran enjoyed it. I did too, with a little "but"... The acting was good, but I did find it a bit weird with the Mexican theme - sometimes Shakespeare's words seemed out of place in the Mexican / Mayan setting.
By this time it was 5pm and the temperature outside was still over 100 degrees. Can you say "HOT!" Time to go home and have a nap!
This day, Iona stayed at home with daddy as we figured (quite rightly) that there would be nothing for her to do at the airfield, the play would be too long for her and she would be better off staying cool at home with her dad.Th
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