Up in the Air

Today we flew home on the Hospital Ship - Flight 400 from San Diego to Chicago.

There was a man on board who coughed and sneezed incessantly for the entire flight. He was joined at times by another man who only coughed and sneezed intermittently. But the first man never stopped - he was even coughing and sneezing the whole time we were sitting at the gate waiting to taxi for take-off.

Two seats behind us, a woman developed a monster nose-bleed during the flight. The flight attendants brought her tissues, towels, large trashbags, and ice packs - and eventually they all said she was doing much better.

We sat at O'Hare for four hours waiting for the flight to T.C. We both had good books to read, and there was terrific people-watching. The people ranged from the Hassidic Jewish man with full hair and beard, dark hat and long coat to the Sikh with the red turban. I saw collegiate sweatshirts for Indiana, Iowa, Gonzaga, and the Maryland Terps. We must have seen 14,000 adorable toddlers - such cute little ones, and so well behaved. Air travel doesn't seem to be a problem for young families these days.

We got up at 4:30 a.m. Pacific time and we landed in T.C. at 8 p.m. EST. It was a long day. But the travel went exactly as planned - no hitches and no glitches. I really wasn't ready to leave San Diego, but all good things must come to an end.

Tonight Michigan beat MSU 72-67 at Crisler Arena. It was quite a nice surprise for us. The State fans are blaming the outcome on the officiating. We know how that is - we always blame the officiating too. Welcome to the club, State fans.