Tuesday 12.7.2011 Nice dinner

The raining front went over us during the night, but in the morning the weather was still so humid that there wasn’t any gliding weather. Kristian, our meteorologist said in the briefing that weather should improve during the day and local flights might be possible late in the afternoon, but weather won’t be good enough for competition flying.

We had really useful session with Emmi and Laura (the girls from competition office) as I taught them basics of Excel. After that I noticed that several cars had gone to Loppi and Säästö-Karit, and I had to go to Loppi myself as well. Riku asked me to get some new daily prizes, since the same people are winning all the time and he wanted to have something new to give to them in case they win again – and they will.

After all we went with other Riku (Pennanen, pilot of H1) to Loppi, and that was great, as we had a perfect idea for the evening. When we passed the place called Kalamylly (Fish Mill) on the way to Loppi, which sells fresh smoked salmon, we had an idea that it would be great to have a dinner with our friends (few pilots and their crew). So we had dinner with pilots of 2W, AB, H1 and HE and their crew members. Menu was perfect Finnish summer food: new potatoes, smoked salmon, garlic sauce, butter and salad. As a dessert we made some pancakes at the fireplace and had fresh strawberries and ice cream to go with those, accompanied by some wine of course. The evening was great and it ended quite late.