911--9 years later...

9/11/01 where were you on this day?

I was working the ramp at YQM (Greater Moncton International Airport), waiting for a flight to arrive--which was quite oddly very late...then word came of what was happening...multiple planes crashing into the World Trade Center towers.

It was very scary being there, seeing all the planes arriving--people from all over the world--landing in Moncton...most passengers had no idea where in the World they had actually emergency landed at.

Two positive memories for me...I got to see the drug dog in action sniffing the off-loaded luggage in one of the huge hangers--that was amazing to watch the dog in action, he thought he was playing a game. The dog had found "something" in one of the bags, which the officer later explained, "it was probably just one marijuana seed"--AMAZING!

And...I got a whole butt-load of Continental Airlines silverware--wooot! As it turned out, the company I worked for at the time (World Wide Flights Services) was responsible for one of the many flights that had landed, none of the grounded flights were allowed to take-off with REAL metal cutlery--bonus!

Our whole crew split the boxes of goods--they may be a bit smaller than your average silverware, but it's my little piece(s) of history.

The Hurricane Adventure

We had some excitement in these parts this past weekend.

Hurricane Earl (a.k.a. Uncle Earl--per local radio station)

Lucky for us, it's path had changed drastically and pretty much missed us completely--can't say the same for the folks in N.S.

We went to the local grocery store and dollar store for "supplies", we looked like the odd-balls at the store "hoarding" batteries--gotta love the Dollar Store!

Grocery store was a bit of a zoo (monkeys included!), but we did get some good deals, per usual, and made it home to wait for Uncle Earl to arrive.

It did rain quite hard and was rather windy--but nothing out of the ordinary. The most widely used phrase during the storm: "Wow, look at how fast the clouds are moving--insane".

Today is quite sunny, with a breeze--really, a breeze? (surprise, back end of a hurricane).

Not Smoking Front:

T is still smoke free, although i'm a bit concerned that she MAY turn into a sunflower (or at least a seed--haha).

She is doing amazingly, all cats and other family members are alive and well--congrats T, over a week smoke free!