I am standing in the Calgary airport @ 3:40 AM. Part of me is wondering how the night got so short! The other part of me is wondering if the students & chaperones will actually show up @ 4:00 AM. Then, people start showing up in droves! By 4:15 AM Continental starts moving us through the ticketing process. By 4:30 AM everybody (all 43 team members) have been processed & we're standing in line for customs & security. Things are looking good!
Customs opens @ 5:00 AM & we begin the "slow shuffle" through a very long line to the customs officers. Almost everyone moved through quickly & went on to security. All except for Mr. Werth, who had be checked for levels of radioactivity due to a recent Thalium stress test (where a radioactive isotope is inject into one's blood & then observed as it moves through the heart). The good news is... I have a heart! The bad news is...customs is worried I am carrying radioactive materials (which I am now presuming are illegal to take into the US).
After confirming that Mr. Werth is non-lethal, he moves quickly to security where he is detained for almost 25 minutes while security officials look for a metal "knife-shaped" object in his carry-on (spotted on x-ray). After emptying the entire contents of his carry-on (and not finding the mysterious device, but exposing his underwear & such to the other travelers in the airport) Mr. Werth runs to board the plane...after the last boarding call...after Mr. Blake came looking for him! No time for a Timmie's for Mr. Werth!
All has gone well since. We are sitting in the Houston airport passing the 7 hour lay-over until our flight leaves this evening for Guatemala City. Time now is 3:35 PM. Time left till we travel, 3 and a half hours. Airports are not very entertaining! Good things teenagers know how to entertain themselves...and everybody else!
Talk later!
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LOL. Poor Mr. Werth. Who would have thought!! We are glad that you made it to the plane, finally. That was probably enough to give you a heart attack, right then and there. This is why we have all bathed you and the team in prayer for instances such as this. Blessings, The Tkachyks
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