Adios Kelly. For 5 Days.

So Kelly is off to merry old England. She took off around 6:45 today. I dropped her off early, in fact we were too early at RDU arriving at 3:00 pm. It was too early for her to check in, and she was flying first class (bonus miles!) so she did not have to worry about long check-in lines and so forth. Having some time to burn we headed over to Raleigh's fantastic observation deck and we cranked up the HAM radio. I'm really getting to love this little radio with transmit/receive on 70 cm, 2 meter and 6 meter. We tuned into the RDU frequencies and listed to the planes land and take off for about 30 minutes.

30 minutes flew by, no pun intended, and I was off to send Kelly away. She boarded the plane without incident and following a short dely to accomodate passengers from another cancelled flight she took off for points East.

Kelly is traveling with our friend Richard who now lives in the US but grew up in London so she's got a local escort who knows the ins-and-outs of her destination. What could be better?

Caroline, Richard's girlfriend, and I are going to check out some sights and destinations around here while Kelly and Richard are checking out London. Tomorrow we're going to High Point to perhaps purchase a RV for Caroline and Richard, we'll see how that goes. We might even head out for a night on the town, perhaps take in a movie, perhaps dinner and a couple drinks. Before you wag your finger in my general direction, yes, we both have "premission". :) With any luck we'll run into someone we know while we're out and we'll get that "OH SCANDELOUS" look in misunderstanding. If we do, I'll be sure to play it up. :)