We were invited to attend my niece’s wedding last weekend:
So the forecast for the arrival airport that we needed to go to on FRIDAY was low ceilings and Low IFR with poor visibility. Since the airport is surrounded by hills, we left the afternoon of Thursday, where it was supposed to be clear-ish (less bad than Friday, anyway)
Forecast for Thursday afternoon at our arrival point was Marginal VFR, ceilings 1500 or a bit better and haze, with a visibility of 3 or more miles.
We left my airport and flew to the arrival one in moderate IFR conditions. Scattered clear but mostly cloudy. Departure folks were good and the en-route ATC folks were on their game, with great vectors and even better descents. Later it became mostly clear but layers that made it IFR:
Arrived, parked the plane, got an Uber to where we were staying, and had dinner with other family (more on that later)
Got up the next day, Friday, to clear weather, no low clouds, no poor visibility, pretty much decent flying weather…Oh well, better early than late, amirite? The weather stayed good for flying all day too. Oh well, one can never trust the metorologists, but they are right about half the time (maybe)
The dinner Thursday evening was rare steak with fried potatoes and vegetables…..and I think it gave me Food Poisoning. I dunno for sure , but it is likely. Either way, that made for an interesting weekend….
I got up Friday not feeling my best, but we did family stuff until it was time to get ready for the Rehearsal dinner….at a taco (Not Mexican mind you, but rather a Taco) restaurant) and that’s when things got somewhat ……bad. I wasn’t feeling well all day, , and by the time we got home after dinner, I was downright ill.
Friday night was just bad. No sleep, ill in ways I hadn’t been since my drinking days, if you get my drift.
Saturday morning everyone went to breakfast….everyone but me. I stayed near the room all day, and simply lost weight…..and I drank Gatorade brought by MC…By the quart.
Saturday was the wedding. I saw my niece get hitched (to a pretty good dude, she got lucky there), and again, I left the festivities early and let them party while I went home to rest…Because the next morning I had to take the bride and others to a super-secret location way north in the Allegheny mountains.
(more on that later).
Stay tuned for more.