Big Bad BoB BBQ may be on again....

[Mark W. Tonner]

... upon landing in Toronto early Sunday evening, our plane stopped while taxiing to its assigned arrival gate, whereupon I happened to look out the window and not more then 200 yards from me sat Air Force One, in all its glory with a mini version of itself tucked right up behind, the whole behind frost fencing. You couldn’t see the underside of Air Force One for the total ring around it of black SUVs, with red flashing lights and the outer ring of ‘men in black’ ... you’d think the plane belonged to someone of importance or something ...

Besides seeing Air Force One, the other interesting thing about our flight home to London, was that it took us approx. 9½ hours from the time we left the driveway in Sarsfield (approx. 1500hrs) to the time we entered our home in London (approx. 0030hrs) ... after landing in TO, our connecting flight out was first delayed twice due to lightning and then cancelled

... whereupon having done a complete ‘360' within the terminal (re book, get baggage, recheck baggage, get new boarding passes, go through screening again) our connecting flight was delayed twice, again due to lightning and finally delayed due to a safety issue with the aircraft ... needless to say, the one thing we had tried to avoid by flying up to Ottawa and return was Toronto, but in the end it sucked us in ... moral of the story: we’ll take a direct flight from Ottawa to London next time

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Despite the rain, it sounds like you guys had a pretty good time! I'm sorry we weren't able to make it - Sally had to work and I was otherwise tied up. I really did want to be there!

The only positive of this weekend is I finally let go of my old employer's services, and went over to the competition. They pushed me around for 20 years when I worked for them, and they're even worse now! But no longer do I have to speak Urdu or Hindi when talking to customer service, and I have the same basic package of goods for about 2/3 the price I was paying before... I shoulda done this a long time ago!

Look forward to seeing most of you in Windsor this August, if not before.

Geoff