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It started to snow in Kelowna just before we headed to the airport. By the time we arrived it was snowing in earnest so my sister and I convinced our parents not to come in and head back home while the going was good. Luckily for us our plane was on time and we boarded without incident, taxied to the end of the runway and then the pilot came on and said the airport authority had just closed the runway! You could hear a collective sigh run through the cabin.

They taxied us back to the gate let us off but said, "Keep close we'll be trying it again as soon as they reopen." That didn't really seem all that likely since it was now snowing even harder. My sister and I along with our cabin mate went and got ourselves a beer. No sooner had we started to drink when we were called back onto the plane. Aw, we had to leave our beer behind.

Of course once everyone was boarded there were two missing passengers. So there was a scramble to find the tardy twosome but finally they arrived and we were once again going through the motions of take-off. The flight attendant was hilarious. By law they have to repeat the instructions but she did it in double time. We deiced and revved up the engines and then Mr. Captain was back on the intercom telling us that once again we had missed our window of opportunity and the runway was shut down.

This time they did not let us off the plane and it seemed like we were in it for the long haul but miraculously and hour and a half later we tried it a third time and this time we made it. We virtually followed the snowplows down the runway and into the air. Needless to say everyone was whooping it up giving the West Jet workers a round of applause.

Most people were great but of course there were a couple of passengers that had to be ultra-annoying and rude to everyone that dared cross their path. But, rest assured they were mocked by the rest of us and no doubt their boorish behaviour has been well documented. I'm always rather stunned by people that will scream expletives at strangers. Do they not know they only embarrass themselves?

We also had a wonderful snowfall on the 22 of December. Here is a picture from my parents place. That's the provincial park across the highway. It's the best. I absolutely love it in there and spend most of my time in there when in Kelowna. the other two pictures are from inside the park.

Well for all you hockey fans out there, Canada plays the US this morning. I think this one might be a doozy because playing the Americans is always fun and the Americans are already in deep after their loss to Germany. Germany? How did that happen?

Go Canada Go!