Safely in Canada

All did not go according to plan with my flights, but I figure it could have been a lot worse. I had to change gates 3 times in Atlanta, which isn't so unusual, even if they were on 3 different concourses. Minneapolis/St. Paul was the problem. The weather was getting bad with rain and sleet by the time I flew in, and by the time I left it was worse with snow and ice. The weatherman was predicting between 4-8" of snow!

We were an hour late boarding the plane, and sat on it another hour waiting our turn to have the plane de-iced before we could take off. I was way over two hours late getting to Winnipeg, but considering some of the recent traveling messes, and some of our past travel glitches, I figure that was pretty tame.

Yesterday we were kind of laid back, and I recovered somewhat from a long day of flights and sitting in airports. I read an entire book before I even got to Minneapolis (452 pages!), so I had time to people watch. Airports are even better than malls for people watching. At malls you have mostly an indigenous population, but in airports the people are literally from all over the world. Different languages, shoes, clothing, luggage... it's interesting to sit and watch all the people rushing by.

My favorite was a young man with a foot high Mohawk died several different colors. Wish I'd had my camera available! It reminded me of the joke about the old dude watching this young fellow with a multi-colored Mohawk. The young guy spouted off, "What's the matter old man, you never seen anything like me before?" To which the elderly gentleman replied... "Well actually, I fooled around once with a peacock when I was younger, and I was just wondering if you were my son."

Which reminds me of the old saying:
OLD AGE AND TREACHERY ALWAYS TRIUMPH OVER YOUTH AND BEAUTY!