It begins again

Today began way too early, 5am I was up, couldn’t sleep because at 8am I needed to be at the airport for my first flight lesson with my dad. That is just too early for me to function well. I pulled into the airport at 8am on the dot after making the hour drive in 45 minutes because I forgot some things and had to back track a few blocks.
About 30 minutes of basic review in the operations building then we headed out to the plane. Cessna 150 N63514 was ready and waiting to go.

After a thorough pre-flight I got us to the end of the runway and away we went. The first take off was pretty squirrely, it has been a while for me, but it was trimmed well and flew itself off just as it should. The second one I did at the end of the lesson went very well I thought, rock solid on the centerline all the way down the runway, room for improvement on the rotation speed, could have lifted off 4-5mph sooner, next time.

The lesson today consisted of how to get a weather briefing, preflight, startup, taxi, climbs, descents, slow flight, turns in slow flight, maintaining altitude/speed/heading without using instruments, some in-flight emergency scenarios, local area specific issues (Class B starts at 2400ft at the airport, we are right next to Kansas City International Airport), and some other things. I did all my own radio work, just a blip or two, but mostly right on. When I discontinued my lessons 20 years ago I had soloed, even finished a dual cross country, so its coming back to me. The first landing was a bit high but pretty close on speed, the second one was on speed and decent but I flared a bit late and 3 pointed the landing, all and all I was happy with my first two landings in 20 years. Its going to take some practice.
Next lesson will be as soon as the weather man says its going to be a nice day, looks now like it will be the end of the week. The wind this morning was calm to 4 knots, unrestricted visibility, and smooth as glass. We hit a couple bumps at 2800ft but very minor, a few more trips out and it will get even easier.
All said and done I got 1.1 hours and 2 landings in the logbook and bought 6 gallons of gas for the plane.