Today was one of the first of many weddings to come from White Bear Lake’s graduating class 2000. This afternoon, Britta Torgerson and Sean Jabbar became Mr. & Mrs. Jabbar in St. Paul, MN. Every moment of the wedding had touches of influence from Britta, from the programs handed out at the wedding ceremony to décor on the tables at the reception. Britta, as usual, looked stunning and maintained her usual serenity. It was great to see close friends, Rummel, Jenni, and the Dickson and Torgerson family as well as Alyson and Katie Johnson. Britta, what an amazing ceremony! Congratulations sweetie and I wish you and Sean only the best! 10 June 2006
Friday, June 16, 2006
I want to win a million dollars.
Who doesn’t? After watching a few seasons of Survivor, being intrigued by the challenge (and the money) and being told by numerous people that I would be perfect for the show, I decided I would go for it. I was going to be in Minnesota this weekend anyway for Britta’s wedding, so why not come in a day or two earlier to try out in Becker, MN? So last night I finally caught the last flight out of Atlanta into Minneapolis on standby, Mom picked me up and early this morning we found ourselves on the way up to Becker to meet with WCCO’s camera teams for an opportunity to be in front of a camera for 2 minutes to make my argument for why they should choose me. Mom also decided to interview as well. I don’t know if I really presented my character very well on film (and I accidentally swore), so who knows what will happen, but I did have a blast spending some quality time with mom and meeting some other great candidates that were trying out as well. I will know more come early August…but if I don’t get a chance for the next round of tryouts, I am definitely going to tryout again next time. Wish my mom and I luck! 9 June 2006
Bill’s Blue Angels
There is something about men named Bill in my life that have this love of air shows, primarily the Blue Angels, and share the love of aviation with me. Previously in my blog I have introduced many of you to my dear friend, mentor and hero, Bill Chervenak who exposed me to Alaska last summer, took be to my first Blue Angels Air show among many other life experiences, but I have yet to introduce my fellow coworkers at FlightSafety Atlanta. Since January I have been an intern on the Lear 45 of which contains a close-knit group of instructors that happens to be good friends. Luis is the program manager for the 45, and the instructors include Randy, Buzz, Regina, and Bill. Bill immediately took me under his wing and has been such a support while I have been at the Atlanta Center, and as you may have guessed we went to see the Blue Angels at Dobbins field together with Regina. I have to say a little more about Regina as well. Obviously being a pilot and a female, Regina and I hit it off right away, she helped me though the bumps I first experienced with learning my first jet and over the past few months we have become good friends. She is an excellent cook and is always inviting me over for a meal, although after the first meal I was invited to a table cloth went up in flames on the deck I can’t believe she invited me back (don’t ask, basically female pilots, though great cooks, shouldn’t always be allowed in the kitchen). Anyway, Regina, Bill and myself were given clearance into Dobbins Air force base to see the practice routine, which as usual was spectacular. After the air show we walked around looking at all the military aircraft. The funniest part of the day was Bill and I walked over to a Delta 767 that was on the ramp and earlier had been allowing people to go into the cockpit (Bill flew in the military and then for Delta until forced retirement). As we approached, a Delta captain was at the bottom of the stairs and informed us that they were no longer allowing tours for the day. Bill responded, “Well that’s too bad you have a future Delta pilot here” at which the captain turned to me and replied “Well you just continue to study hard in those math and science classes.” I giggled a little that the captain thought I was a high school student and told him politely that I had already graduated from college, at which Bill realized what had happened and he put his hand on my back and told the captain “This little girl flies a Lear 45.” After we shocked the Delta captain Bill, Regina and I enjoyed the rest of the afternoon looking at more airplanes. I really have enjoyed working at FlightSafety so far, everyone from the Lear 45 program, to marketing, customer support and many many others in other programs and administrative positions have been wonderful. I really feel that even though my immediate family is not present in Atlanta that I have begun to have a home away from home. I think I may be staying here for a while. 28 April 2006
Back to Vero in Style
Some of the perks of being a pilot are that you know a number of other pilots, of which work for corporate companies, airlines, etc… Well, Jen, as some of you may remember was my flight instructor for my instrument rating and commercial single engine certificate. I was hoping that I would have her for my multi-engine commercial add on but while I was running around Europe last June, she was hired by Sun Aviation in Vero Beach flying a Beechjet. Fortunate for me I still see her once in a while (though not nearly enough) because her boyfriend, Sean, is based out of Atlanta working for ASA and because Sun Aviation does their maintenance at an airport just outside of Atlanta. This particular week she had been up for maintenance and would be flying back to Vero Beach with out any passengers. She was a sweetheart to invite me down to Vero via the beechjet and stay with her. How could I turn down such an offer with such a good friend? So this weekend I was lucky enough to fly the true definition of first class with one of the best pilots I know and spend the weekend with a great friend. I cannot thank you enough Jen and hopefully I will be in Florida again soon! 27 March 2006
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