One More Leg

Departing Boger - this is where Av Gas comes from

Lined up at Norman

Classic 12 with some maintenance issue

Millwood Reservoir

Not quite sure what it was but it smelled bad

Rose and I were up at o dark thirty this morning and out at the airport by 6AM.  I think official sunrise was 6:30 so everyone that wants to depart at official sunrise takes off in RON (remain over night) order.  We were just a few minutes late getting ready and lost track of airplanes so I asked if we were just taking off and Bob the stop chair announced that we were taking off in order until after Classic 20.  Not knowing if I could depart without a penalty we taxied down the runway and departed after classic 20.  We landed at Norman at 8:19AM.  Because our little Mooney was so HOT yesterday we were just going to do the one leg but Rose and I being on the same page as we have been - Rose was going to tell me she thought we should leave and I was thinking the same thing.  Unfortunately, about another 20 racers had the same Epiphany and it was already 85 degrees.  Norman is a controlled airport and the guy was doing the best he could but we waited close to 40 minutes to depart.  We landed at El Dorado at 12:44PM  and we were pretty sure that we were staying.  We cleaned up the airplane, tied her down, signed the RON list and Grandma (Josh's Grandmom) took us to our hotel.  Being the control freaks that we are Rose went to get us a rental car and a good thing it was.  There is nothing close as far as restaurants go so we took a ride downtown when Linda Evans called to say they were stuck at a hotel with nothing close either.  We went to pick them up and went to dinner at Mel's Seafood Restaurant.  There was already a table of 10 racers and we joined them - what fun.  We took a ride out to the airport to check on the airplanes and the heat had started to subside.  We dropped them back off and are working on our plan for tomorrow.