Today's agenda contains a breakfast debriefing and the awards banquet tonight. We will have the afternoon free to pack and get ready for an early morning departure tomorrow. Jo and I don't think we're in the top ten because our airplane wasn't called for a second inspection. Boo. On the bright side, we incurred absolutely zero penalties at the score sheet signing! That's something at least.
Yesterday was a busy day. We finished the score sheet signing and headed out to Teledyne Continental Motors for a tour. We mostly toured the plant floor and got to see how the different parts of an engine are manufactured, rebuilt, and processed. They have some very impressive machinery there.
After that, we headed almost immediately to the battleship to meet up with our girl that we had sponsored through the Boys and Girls Club of Mobile. We had a nice lunch with her and attended the graduation ceremony for the BAGC. Jo and I took some pictures of planes sitting around and popped aboard the ship quickly, and headed back to the hotel.
After getting cleaned up, we headed out to dinner at this place called Wintzell's Oyster House. Jo had bacon-wrapped shrimp, and I had grilled triggerfish. I don't know where she got this idea, but Jo didn't want to split a bread pudding dessert with me on the grounds that she thought bread pudding was a disgusting dessert. I convinced her to try the awesomeness that is bread pudding, and she actually liked it. Must have had a run-in with nasty bread pudding in the past . . .
We're looking at the weathr tomorrow, and it looks as if we should have relatively smooth sailing up until about the Kentucky area. I think we'll just file and be done with it. That's so much easier (usually). We'll need to make at least one fuel stop, because it's over 500 miles to get back to Indianapolis from here. We haven't picked a stop yet.
I'll worry about that later. Time to go to this debriefing breakfast.
You didn't see the 310's Engines over there by any chance? Should have told them to hurry up!
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