IFR to Chicago for Deep Dish Pizza

Today I flew under the hood (check out those foggles) to Chicago.  We stopped at LaCrosse and Madison.  In Madison I got to shoot an ASR approach.  I was excited because it is less common and it provided practical experience for something I had just read about.

Flying to Chicago left me feeling starstruck.  I was handed off from Minneapolis Center to Chicago Center where I shared the same radios with the airline jets flying above me into O'Hare.

Once we landed at KPWK (Chicago Executive), we were able to use the courtesy car...my instructor and I grabbed some deep dish pizza, then we flew home. 3.5 hours both ways, for total time of 7 hours.  I brought home some pizza to Sara, but at that point it didn't look as appetizing.

Expecting a...

One of us is expecting a baby (can you guess which one?)! That's right, adding another Pimental to the world, expected mid October.

Tonight we were able to go to a special fundraiser event for Here's Life Inner City, get dressed up, enjoy dinner with our friends and support an amazing ministry.  Check them out!

Scenic Flight for my Friends

Yesterday I had the opportunity to rent a plane from Thunderbird, where I train as a student, to take a couple of my friends on a scenic flight around the cities.  It was a great day to fly.  Eric and Laura are soon going to be moving out of the country to use their skills as a nurse (Laura) and an English Language Teacher (Eric) within community development.  I can't take credit for these, but Laura got some neat pictures.