flight back home, home, and the creature

I didn't realize how big Columbus is, I mean there were so many houses! I couldn't believe how many there were. There was a lot. I couldn't believe how big Columbus was, and if Columbus is that big, what would a city like New York look like from the air?

It was amazing just looking out the window, It was great, all except the takeoff and before that.
Having dreams that revolved around flying almost all of the night didn't help at all... It really peaked when the wheels lifted off, around 15-30 seconds later I dared to look outside, turned away, and a few seconds later looked again, and pretty much enjoyed the rest.

I was actually disappointed when it ended... hehe




uh I wasn't supposed to take these pictures of downtown Columbus, but I did. (not supposed to have any electronics on so close to landing or something, but when else was I going to get another chance to take a picture like that?)



around Baltimore


clouds when we were around cruising altitude


You know what's causing the smoke of the two smokestacks (look at the one below full size)... Two nuclear powerplants! a Nuclear powerplant's cooling tower! those things are pretty big, and up there they looked really, really small.


if you look very closely you might be able to see the wind power plants on top of that hill... if you've ever seen on of the blades on those things you know they're huge.


the baby gups (18 of them too) I think they came from sunset, which is surising since I thought it would've been silvette.




that's an eel, we believe it was an american eel. This one was almost 2 feet long I think, I was taking a picture on a rock, I look down on a lower part of the rock, and "what in the world?" well... there it was. I got banned from putting it under anyone's pillow... well... except one pillow, which was mine, but I wasn't about to do that.



I came home and one algae eater was dead, the last triop was dead, or dying (probably dying, it was still twitching), I had 18 gups to catch, a hungry molted Ideal to feed, and a miffed Patch to deal deal with.

I took some of the triop eggs and I'm going to see if they've dryed out I put them in water), if they weren't fully dried then they won't hatch until they do, I also put some brine shrimp hatch mix in a bucket, so I can feed it to the gups later. another interesting day