Passing Time in Pittsburgh

I was startled today by a life-sized and somewhat lifelike statue of Franco Harris, formerly of the Pittsburgh Steelers football team, while wandering around the Pittsburgh airport. There he is right next to a similar statue of a young George Washington who apparently fired the first shots in the French - Indian war in this area. There was a plaque between them which compared them to each other in a way that I really didn't understand.

I have been wandering the airport because my flight was canceled thus putting me several hours behind where I thought I would/should be. Instead of getting home at 8:00 p.m., it won't be until after midnight. I have been here since 11:30 a.m. (it is now 4:15 p.m.) and am really tired of it. To make things worse, I will be in Atlanta for another 4 hours after this flight and comparatively speaking, the Atlanta airport is pretty much a dive.

I have been at a National Academic Advising Association conference for the past couple of days here in Pittsburgh. It is a nice area. I really miss Jenny and the kids as I always do when I travel but we just couldn't afford them to come too. I was just reading on Newsweek.com that airfares are likely going to just keep increasing. That will make it hard for folks like us to be able to fly much at all.

I think my favorite part of the trip was my trip to the National Aviary (click here for pictures). I even got the chance to go on a "behind the scenes" tour and pet a penguin. Very cool.

~Wade