Monday, 20 July 2009- Aircraft on my College Park Aviation Museum Afghan

Monday, 20 July 2009- Aircraft on my College Park Aviation Museum Afghan
In an effort to offer sincere congratulations, I congratulated the second winner. I was surprised when this person thanked me, and also chose to follow me. It turned out he didn’t know that it was me, because I sent out a (non-reply) tweet that just gave him a heads up that I am the former foxwhisperer. His reaction/reply was classic! I wasn’t offended one bit, I only indulged in continual laughter for an entire day! How’s this for reading? “Oops that was an accidental follow. Didn’t realize the cursed & disturbing element changed her ID to continue deceiving & annoying folks”. I am sorry he thinks that’s my motive or nature, or that any others think that too. Thanks for the laugh, eh. Irony rocks!
To celebrate, I enjoyed some more of my #warplanes Rock e-Road ice cream. Wouldn’t it be cool if there were crunchy warplanes in it? ;-)
I’ve also begun to promote the College Park Aviation Museum’s AirFair100 on twitter, as well as the book by Jill Rutan Hoffman about her father and uncle, Dick and Burt Rutan, called First Flights. I also bought a beautiful afghan at CGS that depicts eight of its museum display airplanes: the Wright Model B, Bleriot, Gus McLeod’s Stearman, Berliner Helicopter, Piper Cub, Monocoupe, Ercoupe and Curtiss Jenny.

Sunday, 19 July 2009- UA232, Kayaking, Winning the Warplanes Contest

Sunday, 19 July 2009- UA232, Kayaking, Winning the Warplanes Contest
Today marks 20 years since United Airlines Flight 232 crashed in Sioux City. Ever since I first heard about it, shortly after deciding I wanted to be a flight attendant, I have held Captain Al Haynes and his crew in the highest esteem. I saw a re-enactment of the crash on TV, Captain Al Haynes spoke briefly, along with Senior Flight Attendant Jan Brown Lohr. They became heroes to me- it became important to me to recognize their accomplishments on this day, and throughout the week on twitter. Although I did get little feedback, I appreciated hearing others express the same respect for the crew of that ill-fated flight.
I went to Seneca Creek State Park and borrowed a kayak. At first, it looked like the bus 61 didn’t run on Sunday, but it does! The first kayak I was given was new and was very unstable. Since I had my new BlackBerry, I was taking a GREAT RISK! A couple layers of Ziploc bags didn’t make me feel anymore secure. I returned to new kayak and requested one more stable. I could tell a huge difference. I didn’t see any turtles this time. I concluded that that made last week’s sighting even more special.
Later tonight, I joined my twitter friends in the third day of attempting to win a model airplane from www.warplanes.com . This time I won! What was laughably ironic was that the second winner for today… HATES MY GUTS!