Rain Rain Rain…

Good Morning, the farmers are happy and the pilots are left wet. This is now the 5th day of the competition and as you know we’ve only flown 1 day so far. I still have high hopes for next week if all goes well.

The one day we flew Team USA did really good with Tom and Josh making goal respectively 9th and 13th place!!! Bill and I well…we…aaaa…dirted early!!! OUCH!!!

Our team leader Heather Mull has been doing a fantastic job trying to keep us all together team wise, spirits and logistics. It is a blessing to have her on our side working for us at the team leader meetings as there are many things that needed attention in the organization dept!!!

Last night we had yet another epic thunder and lightning show (3rd night in a row!) followed by a huge downpour. Conrad (our team assistant  ), Nicole and I went storm chasing …we wanted a front row seat to watch the storm, west of town. We left the party at the caravan park for all the birthday people and ventured out to get the elusive lightning shot….most people only came up with black photos….

I’ll attach a photo taken last year during a storm watching session out at Godfrey’s place….check out the strike on the ground!!!

Today has a wet look to it again….it could go either way so we have to play the game and act like we’re flying today even though it looks marginal.

The way I look at it is this…we get a few bad days in the beginning….then the weather turns epic again and we fly our booties off all the way till the end and we forget that we ever had any rain!! It’s a much better way then if it was turned around and we had great weather to start with and then it turns bad for the last 5 days. So this is mother nature teaching us all something I’m just not sure what yet….I’ll let you know when I figure it out!!!

Oh I got it…to always pack an umbrella when you go to a PG competition and be faster on the shutter button!!! 

Kari