Hello Chapter 187 and Friends,

Hope you all had a great July 4th weekend with your families and friends. Our four children all came home with their children and our home was converted into a hotel for a week. Rob and I celebrated our 40th anniversary on July 3rd with our families. Everything feels short once it’s passed, but looking back all the events and things that happened in our lives, it has been 40 years. It is strange to think two individuals who happened to meet one day now have 20 people in the family.

The Chapter July meeting is tomorrow, Thursday, July 8th at 6:45p.m. Those who didn’t have a chance to fly out to explore this year, you will enjoy this adventure in the wilderness. Chris McCrank is an avid aviator flying a glider, getting involved int STOL competition in his Aviat Husky with big tires, and exploring, etc. Please come out and join us tomorrow evening. We are meeting at the Taco Cabana for pre-meeting dinner at 15002 FM1825 Pflugerville, TX 78660. East side of I-35 at Pflugerville. Anyone who is hungry, please join us at 5:30p.m.

As we talk about creating families, I have been researching about our Chapter 187 history and it is interesting to know that there are not very many documents at EAA HQ that describes the start of our chapter. Now that they have technology advantage, they have all the records stored away and pull it out anytime. We missed our chapter’s 50th birthday, but we can celebrate a 51st birthday this year. We will have ice-cream social in August. You can create your own banana split and the ice-cream parfait to your tummies content.

Are you all ready to go to Oshkosh for EAA AirVenture? Your tents, reservations for dormitory rooms, hotels, airlines, tune up your planes. preflight the approach... you have a week to get ready! Enjoy your vacation learning and sharing. The AirVenture starts on July 20th and ends on 26th.

See you at Oshkosh, WI!

Haruko Reese
EAA Chapter 187 President