Thunderstorms

Our last trip took us around the midwest and we spent four days seeing some of the largest thunderstorms, I've seen in 7 years of flying! The storms stretched in a line from Canada to Texas (up to 50,000 ft) and caused major disruptions to air travel...

By day three of these storms, passengers and airline employees were becoming grumpy. We were in Wichita, Kansas and we had said "good morning" to a gate agent who then totally ignored us... it was 5 am and then we waited for yet another storm to pass.

Then the rainbow appeared and through all the delays and grumpiness we realized, there is always a good from a bad... as Dolly Parton said, " if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." Please don't ask how we (meaning Simon) know that quote...

We then decided to take pics of Carrie in our airplane... there were no passengers on board yet! She even smiled, even though it was 5:30 am, 3:30 am California time.

One of our layovers was El Paso , Texas... This is our view out of the hotel.... Ciudad Juarez , Mexico. We would have been tempted to go and visit, but the presence of 5000 Mexican soldiers fighting the drug war there right now, kind of deterred us!

And so concludes yet another glamorous week of flying in the airline industry....