Today was LittleMissNaughty's birthday, MrGrumpy had been as organised as usual and not managed to plan stuff in advance (he did have a some excuse, due to being in the US and then going on holiday almost the next day).
Between them they arranged things to do for the rest of the week, this morning they were heading off for a flight over the island in a small plane.
A car collected them from the lobby and transferred them to the local airstrip, they were told there would be a little delay in their flight as there was a memorial being held for a former employee (not a pilot or anybody who crashed, which relieved LittleMissNaughty). This gave them a little time to look around the planes and relax before the flight.
They were going up in a Cessna 172 and as it was her birthday LittleMissNaughty sat along side MrRedBull as co-pilot, she was quite nervous.
They taxied along the runway and in seconds were airborne, really smooth, they did not even notice leaving the ground. It was quite cloudy over most of the island today, so they kept to the coastal areas where it was nice and clear. It did get a little bumpy when they got close to the clouds but overall it was a really smooth and good flight all around the south of the island.
On the way back, MrRedBull got LittleMissNaughty to take the controls, she was not too sure about that, but she didn't make any quick or drastic moves so handled it really well.
When it came to the landing they both expected it to be quite "exciting", but as with the take off, they didn't notice it.
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