Leg 1 of 3 done

Leg 1 completed - Ottawa to Vancouver.

There must be quite a few rich, spontaneous shoppers wandering around airports. Especially here in Vancouver (3 hour lay-over means window-shopping and wandering). Every second store is Gucci, Hermes, Cartier, Mont Blanc, etc. Given that this is the international terminal, we can safely assume that anyone in here has paid >$1000 for their ticket already. On top of that, who in their right mind is enough of a spontaneous shopper to walk into Cartier and buy a $3000 watch?? I consider myself a spontaneous shopper and have to generally rein myself in, but even I can stop myself at buying extremely expensive things in an airport. It has to be spontaneous - do people actually plan on coming here to buy thousands of dollars worth of bling and glitz? I am actually puzzled. I generally don't walk into these expensive stores - I figure I should be dressed up to do so or risk being shooed out as lowering the image of their clientele. And also fear walking into some breakable object which would cost me 3 months pay. But I figure an airport is a neutral zone and being a bit spaced out from travel and not dressed to the nines is excusable.

I saw an amazing sight at the Ottawa airport this morning - a 50-ish man wearing walking shorts which were imprinted with fluorescent polka dots. I was being accosted by the security woman at the time (apparently I was hiding something in my bra as it kept setting off the beeper - damn those underwires!!), and we both stopped to stare in awe at this man. Either he (1) is very secure in himself, (2) was venturing down to some Caribbean clime where he thought this was appropriate fashion, or (3) he simply was clueless about how BAD he looked! I am betting on a combination of 2 and 3. It was wrong, simply wrong. Especially at 6am in the morning. How is that acceptable attire in ANY country? Simply amazing.

Leg 2 starting in an hour - Vancouver to Tokyo. 10 hours worth of movies and tv shows.

Note: watch "Dinner for Schmucks" - simply hilarious. But maybe not a good plane movie as it induces quite a bit of laughter!!