N123HA "Hotel Alpha"

My most recent flying lesson was last Sunday afternoon. The winds were just a little too high and a little too variable so I didn't solo again. But I did do 6 landings with varying degrees of smoothness...a couple were very smooth and one, that seems to have been stuck in my head all week, I bounced a couple of times. I was going to fly again today...calm winds all day until right after school, then they really started howling...so I am going to wait until I know I can solo again...I really want to do 3 or 4 landings on my own during my next lesson...so I am just hoping for some good weather sometime this weekend...In the photo the plane on the right is our trainer: 123HA...and boy does it do a lot of training, seems like it is constantly in the air. I first saw Hotel Alpha in '06. One summer evening Teddy and I were bored and we drove out to the Festus Airport for the first time. We pulled up just in time to see a small plane take off...Hotel Alpha. The sound of the engine and the smell of the fuel unleashed a flood of memories of growing up around airplanes. I felt a powerful rush of excitement and then fear (actual fear of flying and fear of the expense)...because I knew I would have to try again. It has been a long road, but it's funny that the plane that inspired my return to aviation was the one in which I would solo almost 5 years later!