Take off, eh!

Yep. That's me with my hot little headset on, my aviator sunglasses firmly in place and a PLANE at my finger tips.

Yes, that right.
Your eyes did not deceive you.

I flew a darling little Cesna all over Vancouver this weekend.

(It's amazing what they let just anybody do these days, isn't it!) *

Here's me. FLYING!!!

My pilot Dirk actually seemed to be encouraging it.
"Here," he'd say, "You take the controls."
"No problem!" Pulling the plane into sharp spiralling banks, and straight back, up into the blue...it was a divine and lofty feeling.
(Until the turbulence over the mountains set in of course, and then the real fun began!)
It's a very interesting thing to suddenly have to be concerned about the third dimension of up and down while zooming about at 200mph.**
In truth, I've flown a helicopter too, but they are decidely different things.














This is beautiful Vancouver...Stanley Park is the large wonderful space of green at the bottom of the cityscape there. And the mountains over yonder are the "Lions" after which our bridge, "The Lions Gate" is named.


And there I stand after a long day in flight...there's nothing like a sunny blue day in the sky to make you grin like a maniac.




Oh.

And the snakes?





They're EVERWHERE!!! ***









* Wait'll Bush hears about that!
** Thanks Kris, for giving me the super-cool opportunity to add that to my list!
***Sorry Mr. Jackson, I just couldn't resist!

Oh, and as an added bonus...Spider wanted me to make note that Samuel L. Jackson and I (and to be honest, several other people) had drinks together here in Vancouver at a private club a few weeks before he filmed in my neighbourhood.
Maybe he overheard me.