Dad visit

I flew to Amarillo this week. 

To start things off. Before the flight we noticed that our nose wheel tire was a little more warn than we would like.  We asked for it to be changed.  It was pretty cool watching them change an airplane tire.  It took about 15 minutes.  We didn't waste the time out there though.  My IP asked us all sorts of GK (General Knowledge) questions.  Great...... 

It was pretty cool.  There is a restaurant out there called "The Big Texan".  It's really touristy.  There is a limo with longhorns on the hood to come and pick you up.  There is a "72 ounce steak challenge".  Really touristy kinda place ya know.  That's where everyone eats when they fly to Amarillo from here...........except us. 

The IP's heard that there was a really good burger joint a little further into town (Coyote Bluff Cafe).  The decision is really not up to us so we went to the burger joint.  We pulled up into a gravel and dirt parking lot with a small house that made to look like a restaurant.  we walked up, and opened the door.  We couldn't even get inside because it was so packed!  Haha.  It's one of those really small restaurants.  This one only had about ten tables.  When one party comes out, another party can come in.  We finally got in and ate.  There's only burgers, fries and onion rings on the menu so it was not hard to order.  The food was actually really good.  Cash or check only type of place.  Haha.  It makes you wonder....if they're keeping all of that money (by not paying taxes), they should have a lot nicer of a place. C'mon.

During our sim this week the computer than ran it had a glitch.  Its hard to see in the picture...., but yep, that's the good old Windows error message.  Haha.   I'm glad our planes are not run by Windows.

On Friday night we went to class 10-13's drop night (when they find out what plane they'll fly).  It's fast becoming very real.  I'm class 11-01.  There is only two classes until my drop!  Graduation plans are being made.  Everything's getting very very real.  Mine is 8 Oct!!!

My dad and Yazmin came to visit this weekend.  They got here late Friday night and went straight to the AF Inn.  On Saturday we started by my dad and I going to the grocery store for steaks and chicken.  We came back and I grilled.  I'm not sure if everyone lies to me........but..........., I think I might be good at grilling.  Anyway.  Later we drove around town looking at pottery.  Then we drove out to the lake.  Then ate ice cream at the Emporium.  Later we went to Saturday afternoon mass.  Then we went to eat at Rudy's BBQ.  We finally ended the night with a movie rental.  Let me just start out by saying that I'm not into movies that much.  I searched and searched for a movie that I wanted to watch.  I came out with Spaceballs.  Haha.  I love that movie.  I think if you asked Kristen and Yazmin to list their 100 favorite movies, Spaceballs would not be in that number.  But they were troopers and watched it.  Haha. 

My dad and Yazmin stopped at Buckees (a glorified gas station in between San Antonio and Houston) and picked up a stuffed "Buckee" (beaver) for Dallas to play with.

I woke up Sunday morning for a bike ride with friends.  we've been talking about it but never did it.  Today was awesome!  We rode about 14 miles to a donut and coffee shop.  Stopped there for a while and just relaxed.  then we rode back the long way another 19 miles.  It was so much fun!  We said that we'd keep doing this every weekend but you know how that ends up.  We'll see.  I hope we keep it going.  See ya next week.