Things we learned from this trip home…

I think you learn something when you travel, no matter where you go.  Here is what we learned on our christmas trip home to Canada and lingering questions we still have…

 

• Continental Airlines’ (and probably all airlines for that matter) baggage handlers throw luggage far and hard.  After watching them handle our luggage while we sat on the runway I believe they are recruiting these handlers from former olympic discus and hammer throwers.  How our new printer ever made it home without being smashed to crap is still a mystery.
• Has anyone actually ever taken a package from a stanger in the airport to deliver it to someone?  Where are these good semaritans?
• Minus 14, is a lot colder than it sounded when we left a year ago.
• Helmet hair is far worse than toque hair. Toque hair looks like you just got out of bed, helmet hair makes you look like you were an extra on the "low-flow" episode of Seinfeld.
• Speaking of Seinfeld – Sue apparently looks like a terrorist and got the friendly, super thorough search at the airport.  All she could think of was "ladies and gentlemen…I implore you".  Shawn got to watch some strange french lady fondle his wife, which wasn’t as entertaining as it sounds.
• Speaking of french ladies – Shawn had forgotten the beauty and elegance of the hybrid french/english (Shiac) language in Moncton.  "Looker, il y a un homme dans le bucket" and "All les enfants sont babysitting age now, la", are just two of the actual quotes we heard on the plane on the way to New York.  There were numerous other statements which caused us to giggle like school girls.  Based on this Shawn hopes to create a hybrid spanish/english language, which will help improve the economy and communication in the United States.  This should cause him to win the nobel prize for economics, so he thinks.
• Speaking of New York, there is at least one friendly customs person working in the US, which is one more than previously believed.

Hasta la vez próxima from Bermuda, el.