IOE was a blast. Got to the gate a few minutes early, gate agents could tell I didn't know what on earth was going on and ribbed me a bit. Captain showed up a few minutes later, grabbed the release, invited me to come to the smoking lounge and have a smoke. We went through some paperwork. Back to the gate, and off we go. Down to DAL. The look on my face when the captain threw the couple button to my side and said "It's all yours" back to STL must have been a riot. If only the passengers knew... On the way back we got to dodge some TS. Captains showing me all kinds of neat stuff that the plane can do. I'm sitting there gawking at the storms out the window.

Back and forth to DAL and JAX on a four day with a couple other places thrown in. After a couple legs I knew I was starting to get it when the captain said "You got the walkaround. I'm gonna go smoke."