Its mid November and we decide to squeeze in a weekend trip with friends to Santa Rosa. The reason for the trip isnt a super happy one, their fur baby Norby isn’t doing so well and could use a cheer up visit. This is one of the few trips that we are going to do at night over the mountains from S50-KSTS. We load up the plane and the 2 kids for a 2 hour flight.
As soon as we pull the plane from the hangar though, we get a light sheen of ice! How is that possible? it isn’t raining and there isn’t any reason for it. We figure out it is just moisture in the air that stuck to the warm wing when we pulled it out from the hangar. We are able to get all the ice cleaned off and have a successful flight to KSTS.
We fly in and the tower is already closed. We land at the Sonoma Jet Center and pick up our mini van for the trip! We are staying with Norbys Mom so we aren’t staying in a hotel for this short trip. Since we get in late, it is straight to bed! The next morning we explore downtown Santa Rosa and notice all the Peanuts Statues! Santa Rosa is the home town of Charles Schulz, the creator of the Peanuts. It is fun to find snoopy and wood stock all over town!
Then we decided to go wine tasting! Wineries are great for kids because they have nice property that kids can explore and enjoy. We even searched for kid friendly vineyards! After a few wineries we went for Sushi dinner before heading back to relax.
The next day was just a departure day as we had a 2 hour flight a head of us and the weather was marginal to come home. Our home airport only has a GPS approach which only goes down to 1600 feet. 1600 feet in Seattle isn’t very low to break out of the clouds in Seattle. We decide to change our destination to KBFI and land there. KBFI has an ILS approach that will get us low enough to see the runway and land. After receiving a new ATC clearance, we are vectored to the approach. We land and park at Clay Lacy aviation, but we still need to get back to S50 about 20 minutes south for the cars. We are able to rent an Uber suburban to fit us all and head over to the Auburn airport. Thankfully we always fly with our car seats!
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