Many of you have asked what daily life looks like for us right now. For Mike daily life consist of A LOT of studying. He is focusing on maintenance right now for the Cessna 206 and is in class from 8am until 4:30pm. Since the MAF hanger is right across the street from our apartment he gets to pop over for a quick lunch every day, which is nice.
Mike was expecting to do three weeks of maintenance training followed by three weeks of flight training, but due to the fact that MAF has three airplanes available to fly and 7 pilots to train they had to shift things around a bit. Long story short, Mike will do some flight training next week! He is very excited to get off the ground again and back up into the air, it has been too long since his last flight.
Macie, Colton and I have been settling into the apartments nicely (I won't lie there have been a few "bumps" along the way). There are a lot of kids living here at MAF during standardization too, so there are always friends to play with outside. It is awesome to always have playmates, but sometimes a bit overwhelming. It is a good opportunity to learn how to share and how to resolve conflicts, but it can be exhausting! The kids spend a lot of time outside whizzing around on Razor Scooters and Colton has been riding his bike a bunch. Which leads me to this...
This is the bottom of a flip-flop. Notice the thorns stuck in the bottom of them? This is what happens every time a person wanders off the sidewalk here, their shoes (or worse bare feet) are covered in these crazy thorns! If you look at them closely you can see why they are called "Goat Heads". They look like deranged goats!
What does this mean for Colton and his bike? Four tire repairs so far! Mike is also getting a lot of bike tire maintenance in this week too.
