"Wow, you're really durable"

this is a direct quote from my co-worker after I fell down a flight of stairs at the airport with luggague in hand on Saturday afternoon in Chicago. Prior to my fall, I commented to myself that my suitcase was really heavy and I didn't remember it being that heavy when I flew out to Chicago. As I was having this conversation with myself, my heel got caught up in my cuff of my jeans and I said to myself..heather you are going down. Sure enough, I did.

Luckily no broken bones. Just a few nice bruises strategically placed on my body.

Getting Excited

So my summer swap package is out the door! Wahoo!! I can't wait to hear what my summer swap partner has to say. I hope she likes everything!! This was definitely a fun thing to do. Nice work Jenny!!!

No tears

I did it. I made it through my dentist appointment. I didn't cry, whine or scream while the nice dentist man cleared away all the yucky gunk. I even made an appointment for next month to give my pearly whites a deep clean. That is major progress.

No barf bag needed...

After a slow start this morning--aka...low cloud cover. Eli and I were finally able to take our first plane ride together with Eli as the pilot. First off, let me tell you these little cesesnas are not for the weary. It is a tiny-ass plane. About the size of a two-seater car. We flew from Long Beach Airport to Catalina Island. Catalina is just off the coast of Long Beach, California.

One thing I did learn is that my cute husband is a very safe pilot--very thorough on his pre-flight. He walked me through everything that he was doing during the pre-flight. He also pointed out the various instruments and what they do/mean. We borrowed a head set so that we could talk to each other. I also was able to hear the control tower chatter--very cool! Take off was pretty cool--I had to get used to the wind knocking us around a bit--I felt like I was on an amusemnt park ride--especially at times when my stomach dropped. We climbed to about 6500 ft and cruised.

Landing at Catalina was good. I usually get nervous when a 737 plane is landing so I wasn't sure how I would handle this. I did good! After we landed and park the plane we had a picnic and went for a hike. The scenary was gorgeous. It was nice to spend sometime with him this weekend..we've or rather he has been going non-stop since we moved out here and our time together is so limited now and will be even more limited starting next week. It was nice to finally talk about our thoughts about SoCal, ideas for us in the next 1 to 3 years..etc.We only got to hike for an hour due to the guy I borrowed the head set from was flying at 5pm.

The flight back was good as well. The wind was knocking around even more. This time I did get a little nervous and was holding onto my shoulder belt. Eli had to ask me a few times if I was okay. All he kept saying to me was babe--you are doing good. I had to remind myself that Eli was in control and it was just the wind. Once again the landing was great. I logged 1.2 hours of flight time!!!

To top off the great weekend, we made scallops wrapped in bacon and shrimp all grilled on the BBQ and we opened and finished a bottle of red wine. hee hee!
Here are some pictures of our adventure...

Eli pre-flight checking the plane


Pulling the plane onto the taxi way



Leaving Long Beach, CA


Catalina Island



Coming in for a landing at Catalina Airport


Pilot-Eli and Co-pilot-Heather

Still Sore

I am loving the encouragement! I am so thankful that I have a new found friend and someone who is more gym motivated then I will ever be in my life time! However, it is quite funny that I am still hobbling around like I am 9 months pregnant or just had a wild eveing with my husband..unfortunately neither of it is true. I mean seriously folks, my under butt cheeks hurt. I didn't realize that COULD hurt.

E and I are starting to have a social life!!! Last night, I met Lacy for our workout..thankfully my upper body is not as sore as my lower half. I came home and met up with E and a friend of his from work and we went to the batting cage. Still not sore and can still hit a baseball and a softball!! Haaaaay! Then went out for apps and a beer--totally ruined the workout on mozeralla sticks, nachos and honey blond beer--mmmmm good! It was good to get out and socialize!

This weekend--E is home with me!! YAY!!! We get to start the morning off with my routine of going to Yoga and my favorite teacher is teaching so I am more then excited. After that we are headed up to LA to meet our friend who is doing the Aids Ride. It is 500 and some miles ride from San Fransisco to LA to raise awareness for aids research. She arrives in LA so we are going to greet her with Fat Tire Beers and a huge hug. E did this ride two years ago and his experience inspired her to do the ride. I am hoping she enjoyed the experiene b/c the texts that she was sending E did not sound like she had a good time. Hopefully she did.

Sunday-we are going to fly. :) Very excited about that. He said he has the plane rented from 10-4pm so hopefully the weather co-operates-meaning no clouds or very little clouds because he isn't instrument rated yet and can only fly when the sky is clear. Come on SoCal weather!!!!

Workout

I feel like I was just a part of the Bravo Realty tv show "workout". I must say I have never watched the show but I whole heartedly believe that if I had I would still feel like this.

My new gym friend Lacy, you may remember me posting about her and if could figure out how to insert a link I could link back to the post...anyway.. she KICKED.MY.ASS. She is freaking hard core!!! My legs are JELL-O!! I could barely walk up the two flights of stairs to my apartment after our work today.

and I can't believe I agreed to do it again tomorrow night

Thank you

Thank you to all you who gave a "shout out" of congrats to E. He is very excited!
This Sunday we are planning to fly to Catalina Island and go for a hike. He is flying us!! I am excited but a little nervous. It is a tiny, tiny plane we are flying. He brought home barf bags from SW so that if I do get sick, I have some place to get sick in..Told you he was a keeper :)

I am brining my camera with me on Sunday so I will share all the fun photos.