She was born prematurely at 36 weeks, but doing great. Mom is also doing well but required extra attention. Still in the hospital but expect to go home tomorrow!

I’ve been waiting for the fuel components for awhile and I finally got the last piece a couple of days ago. Turns out it can’t connect/couple with the other component I need it to connect to! (From the same company no less!). So it looks like I’ll need to upgrade my fuel selector to the newest version so I can use the extender I need to use.

Here’s a quick picture of my engine, as it looks crated in. This is a 2007/2008 Eggenfellner E6 6-cylinder Subaru engine (normally aspirated).

And here are a couple of pictures of my panel, as delivered by Aerotronics. Very nice wiring in the back, I hope I don’t have to break any of those bundles!

We headed to Alcatraz the morning after I arrived. It was pretty interesting and we got some good photos of the island. Inside is pretty much what you would expect (not really that exciting), but the history of the place is an interesting study.

After that we kinda just wandered around the city, mostly on foot. I think we walked around probably 3-4 hours a day on Friday and Saturday – we were both tired and sore by the time we got back to our rooms.

Cheryl had wanted to participate in that timed honored scam where someone sells you an oyster for $15 to see if you get a pearl in it – so we picked up one of those and got a nice blue pearl out of it. Of course, you can’t just have a loose pearl lying around, so for a measly additional $120 we had it placed on a pendant so Cheryl can wear it on a necklace.

We did see Hellboy 2 while we were there, and that was pretty fun. Good movie, though the theater next to the Mascone Center is kinda sucky – wouldn’t have been so bad if their sound didn’t keep going up and down in volumn (from loud to really loud to really really loud and back down again). I’d recommend the movie, but not the theater.

Some more pictures can be seen here, but my camera was having problems focusing in the haze so I only picked out a couple of good ones.

After many delays (got sick, bad weather, bad weather+bad plane) and mucho $$$ I finally got to take my instrument check ride. I am now a fully qualified instrument rated pilot. Whoo.

This damn well better make my insurance rates go down!