Holy Crap---NICE JOB AK BARS!!!!!!

Fuckin-heimer I wish I'd been there to be a part of THAT one! And Garrett being the big hero to boot! That's two overtime goals he's put in for the Big Dub-U in the last what? Two seasons?? Way to go Garrett! Looks like Trevor had a good game too. Way to go guys. I cannot WAIT to play this weekend you guys have NO fucking idea!! :)

Well, it's about 4:45pm India time and I'm off to the Mumbai airport in about one and a half hours. I gotta say...I'm really happy to be heading back to the Great White North, no matter how much ya'll are trying to warn me about how cold it's been! I can't wait for the crunch of snow and the chainsaw bite of that wind. . This trip has been great and interesting and everything I'd hoped it too be, but it's more complicated than that. The Beijing/Shanghai trip in 2005 was more "fun" in the typical sense--and still my favourite trip so far. But India was--well--way more difficult to wrap my mind around. I've got nearly 16 hours starting in about 6 hours to muse on that until the laptop battery gives out, so I'll not get into in right now.

Mike and are are gonna hit the pool for a bit of a swim (it's like--85 here) before Vishnu the Driver picks us up for the trip to the airport. I'll probably have a few beers down there for good measure as well. Where's Adam and Dean when I need him 'eh? Be nice to have a little exercise before being cooped up in the plane for all that time tho.

Mike really is living in the lap of luxury here tho man. His "room" is really a one bedroom apartment overlooking this lake with these monster picture windows in both bedroom and living room overlooking this lake, then these high rise apartments on the opposite bank with a hill behind that. The haze isn't as bad here as Delhi so you can actually sorta see.

We actually checked out his work too, and since the training crew hadn't shown up, we fired up the 737 simulater and I got to "fly" it around Mumbai! It's really cool....a complete mockup of the cockpit and the thing tilts and everything to simulate acceleration and turbulence and all that. I even took it on a super tight turns--like 45 plus degree bank and working the rudder pedals while the alarm goes "Bank angle! Bank angle! Bank angle!" which means that the plane is fine but the "passengers" may not be liking it back there; not even in Business class. It was suprisingly easy to fly tho, and in real life the pilots do VERY little...just set the knobs and info on the autopilot and the plane can fly itself from gate A in wherever-ovia to gate B at wherever-else-istan. And I mean it can literally do that. For real. Fucking amazing. And rather comfirting being I'm gonna spend the better part of a whole 24 day up in a few of these newfangled contraptions!

Okay. Off to the pool. I'll see many of you soon and put a few more posts in when I'm back in Minnesota.

See everyone soon

-Kai #10