beautiful distractions

i could have been catching up on sleep, or working on my lit review, but instead i was enjoying a bird's eye view of manawatu and the 'naki! daryl and slim took aaron and i up for their morning and afternoon flights: the first over wanganui and foxton and back to palmy, the second to new plymouth and back. we stopped in new plymouth briefly for a cup of coffee and watched heaps of other planes who were also out and about on a perfectly sunny day.