November 25th - Flight to Oakland

Yesterday we left Perryville at 3:30 a.m. for our flight to Oakland, California. We had to change planes in Salt Lake City. As we were approaching the runway a small plane flew into our airspace and the pilot had to pull up hard and circle around 25 miles to make another approach. That was the first time that has ever happened to us. When we landed in Salt Lake City it was snowing. We originally had an hour lay over but by the time we did the second approach and landed we were only at our gate ten minutes and they started boarding.

The plane left the gate on time but because of the snow the plane had to be de-iced. I never was on a flight before that had to de-iced just before take off. Here are two pictures I took of our de-icing at the end of the runway. It was interesting to see how the equipment worked it’s way around the plane.   It delayed us about a half hour.

We arrived in Oakland and after visiting for a couple of hours went and picked up granddaughter, Violet, from pre-school.

Here is a selfie I took with her this morning before she went to pre-school.

It is supposed to start raining this afternoon and throughout the night. They need rain badly here. The last rain they remember was in March. When we drove Homer out to California in 2016 it rained so much it broke the state drought and flooded many of the areas around us. In fact we had to get out of a campground because part of the road washed out. I think California should hire me to come out more often and bring rain!!!!

Tomorrow we will shop for Thanksgiving dinner. We are all assigned dishes to prepare. Grocery shopping and cooking should be fun.