Sunday, January 21, 2007

Toronto Vancouver Seattle Vancouver Edmonton

I saw this face a couple times. It's in the Air Canada Maple Leaf lounge at the Vancouver international airport, and looks spookier in person. The best thing about the lounge there is that they have showers, the VIP kind where you get a private room, hair-dryer, towels, and the floor is dry.

Anyway, this face marked a mid-point in my journey as I travelled from Toronto to Seattle and took a brief rest in the lounge while waiting for my next flight.

Seattle unfortunately didn't have much to offer me because I barely saw it as I took my smokey rental car to Issaquah to prepare for my face-to-face with a potential customer. I worked for several hours, then met up with a colleague for a late lunch (my stomach told me emphatically that it was supper time on the east coast) to discuss the meeting. I worked until midnight and woke up at 5 am.

I showered, shaved, dressed, and headed down for breakfast - but not before I called my travel agent and arranged for my return flight to take a little stop-over in Edmonton.

Fast forward to after the meeting and my return to Seattle airport and I'm getting some trouble from security. It turns out that when the nice lady (Atsuko Satsumo if I recall) at the check-in counter wrote "SSSS" on my ticket, that wasn't a good thing. I got special treatment to be certain. I got sent to a special line, I had 3 TSA staff waiting on me, it was great. One man even gave me a special full body massage. If you also want to enjoy the special pleasures of this experience you need only a BIC pen and the courage to try writing "SSSS" on your ticket.

After all that excitement I definitely needed the shower in Vancouver, I didn't feel "clean" anymore. To be honest though, the TSA staff were very polite and cordial. I mean, the masseuse even told me that if I didn't feel comfortable at any point, we could go to a private room. I tried my best to feel comfortable.

So Edmonton is where I am now, and today I ventured down to Whyte Avenue to view "Ice on Whyte" and the associated ice sculptures. Great stuff, it's so nice to be back even if it is just for the weekend.

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