Pilot Life: Local Night Flight

I haven't flown in over a week! My last flight was at night to fulfill my cross country requirements for the Instrument Rating checkride and since then, weather hasn't been all that cooperative (I'll be glad when I FINALLY earn my Instrument Rating, which apparently come fast enough!) so I haven't been able to fly at all since then. It's a new month and I finally get a weather window late in the day, so I ended up going on a local night flight. I decided to do some night landings in Corvallis.

Local night flight in N5174E.

After a quick, yet thorough pre-flight, I got airborne and made my way to the southwest. I picked up the weather from the AWOS frequency and entered the left downwind for Runway 35 after crossing over the Corvallis Municipal Airport at midfield 500 feet above pattern altitude. I did two smooth touch-and-go landings before heading back to Albany, where I made my full-stop landing.

After clearing off the runway in Albany, I decided to forego refueling the plane and taxied straight back to the hangar since it was dark outside. After putting the plane away, I went home. I'll have to make sure to keep a close eye on the weather from here on out so I can take advantage of every good weather window I can get. Hopefully, I'll get enough good flying days to get some more training flights in with my instructor as well.