110 Years!

Today is the 110th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight.  In 2003 on the 100th anniversary, Barry and I got together at Olympia to give James his first ride in a light plane using Barry's Piper Pacer.

James was a little timid when he first took the controls, but Barry talked him through a couple of turns, then he flew us to Centralia, banking and turning when ever he wanted to look at things.

While we were waiting for the the weather to clear and Barry to get the plane ready, James and I went to the Olympic Museum of Flight.

When ever James and I went flying or to a museum, I would give him a camera to take pictures with, it is amazing how interesting it is to look at those pictures later.

Here is the one he took of me that day!

It was 36 degrees when we left home for our walk this morning, but there was not much wind, so it was an enjoyable walk with lots of conversation.  I had skipped breakfast, so we stopped at BK for their special and a hot chocolate on the way home.

When we got home, I started doing this year's Christmas cards and writing a letter to go in them.  That ended up taking most of the day.  Finally after checking the weight of the cards, I have gotten bit on that before, we headed down to mail them.  This picture is the tree by the post office, Castle Rock has the business district decorated pretty nicely this year.  We drove around for a while looking at lights and taking pictures, this link is to the house on 3rd Ave. with animated lights.
https://vimeo.com/82161812

On the way up the hill, I stopped and took a couple of pictures of Bob's lights, they look great every year.