Out East... for a while.

Well, what should have been a couple of days out East doing some flying has turned into a long stint. Which is good and bad. Good for the pocket books, as I'm making more money being away from home base, but bad because I hadn't planned on being away for any greater than 5 days.. because that's all I packed for.

So.. today is day 5. See where this is going? And I'm anticipating being here until Wednesday, which is another 5 days. So.. it's time to find me some laundry facilities.

I'm in Kitchner Ontario staying in a Best Western. Kitchner is one of our eastern bases and I'm here to fly the eastern jet. I got out east on Monday when I flew into Hamilton in preparation for some flying which started on Tuesday. I went down to Oklahoma City and back up to Kitchner. The next day we went down to Tucson via a gas stop in Wichita. We then headed back up to Oklahoma City to pick up the people we had dropped off the day prior, and took them down to Georgetown Texas. Georgetown is a little town just outside of Austin Texas. There wasn't a whole lot to do there, so nothing much to report. The next day we flew them back up to Hamilton and then did the quick hop ourselves over to Kitchner. All of a 13 minute flight, and it was only that long because the weather was bad so we had to fly full approaches through the low cloud and fog to get in.

That brings us to today, Friday. I was going to be heading down to Mexico tomorrow to spend a lovely night in Los Cabos, but that all changed when the jet broke. So no more Mexico. It is getting fixed right now and should be up and running for a flight out of here Monday to Hamilton to pick up those same folks once again and take 'em down to Little Rock Arkansas and then over to Indianapolis. We'll spend the night there and take 'em back up to Hamilton Tuesday. At that point I'm hoping I will hop on a Westjet or AirCanada flight back to Calgary to sleep in my own bed. In the past 2 weeks I've only slept there 1 night, but that first week was because I was in Vancouver on holidays.

So yah, here I sit in my little hotel room all weekend long, just waiting for that flight on Monday. Exciting. And it's only me here!

Today I did go out touring around and walked into the Futureshop to take a peak at all the latest and greatest deals on gizmos... and low and behold they've got a big sale on their XBox360's as a result of the big launch for the PS3. Well, I thought long and hard all day long, and actually succumbed!! I had my roommate Mike pick one up for me in Calgary (only GST in Alberta) as it was a one day sale only. So I am now the proud owner of a new XBox, and I won't be able to touch it until Wednesday at the earliest!!!