Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Wow, what an insane weekend.

The weekend started on Friday(obviously), the day of my commercial check-ride. I decided to head out to the airport early to work on my maneuvers. I was working on emergency procedures, where you pull the throttle to idle to simulate an engine failure and practice what you'd do. Well, as I go to push the throttle in to recover, I press it in too fast and nearly stall the engine at 3000 feet. Not a very good start to the day I thought to myself. Well, anyway, I breeze through my check-ride and am now officially a commercial pilot.

For celebration, I invited a couple handfuls of friends and family to the Old Sequoia, a cigar bar and lounge behind the Redwood Lodge and everyone I invited showed up! It was great! I ended up getting smashed and a couple of us went to the Autumn Lounge for some karaoke, but I don't remember much of that and guess I got kicked out because I was sleeping on one of the tables.

The next day was Rick's wedding day. It was a great wedding and reception, and though I was still hurting from the night before, I managed to get wrecked again. That was a great time, congrats Rick and Angie. After the reception, we decided it'd be a great idea to go to McDonalds. In the hallway we see a woman and about 10 kids that we saw at the wedding and we asked em all what they wanted from McDonalds. Weird thing, they all wanted nuggets. I couldn't even coax the little girl into getting a happy meal, even after I told her they had the My Little Ponies this month. So off to McDonalds we go, and we end up buying about 40,000 Chicken McNuggets. By the time we get back to the hotel, all the kids were sleeping. I don't think I've ever ate so many chicken nuggets in all my life. When we woke up the next morning, they were littered all over the room, even after half of us ate until our guts busted.



That's not me, or anyone I know, but it might as well have been.
-Michael