Flight Canceled

Unky Herb's trip to New York didn't happen. He went to the airport and tried to check in, but NWA had canceled his flight, along with about a thousand others, because of a big storm in the Empire State. They had no seats on other flights until Sunday, so he stayed home. It could have been worse. Without a nonstop flight people have ended up in strange cities, some times for several days. Herb was wise to book a nonstop, because he is often reminded of an ill fated trip to Norway, when we spent three days trying to get out of the USA, and wherein he wasn't reunited with his luggage until we arrived at home, two weeks later.

Since Herb was home for the day, we took a ride to Como to try to see the new male baby orangutan, newly named Jaya, who was born on December 13. Unhappily, Jaya was not seeing visitors today. I was, however, able to take some photos of the area around the zoo, including a view of the Conservatory with a lot of white snow still clinging to the earth.



We took the walk around the zoo, checked out the Tiger, Snow Leopard, Cougar, Polar Bears, Bison and some sort of wild sheep. And apes and monkeys. Momma Orang was there, along with some huge gorillas with interesting feeding tactics. They'll eat anything. And then we checked out the sunken garden for the variety of flowers. It never disappoints. There was a great aroma and a lot of very pretty flowers. I'm saving photos of them for later posting, when the snow stops being so white. That could be soon. The weather guys on TV are saying that we'll get some 30's by Sunday.

I played USTA mixed doubles tonight at Fort Snelling with a new partner. We played well enough the second set, getting to a tie breaker, and nearly got to a third set. 1-6, 6-7. This time the opposing guy was very strong and we had to play away from him and towards the woman. It almost worked, but the tiebreaker was 7-5. Hard core Jerry, our captain was there, and we were able to win the other two matches for him to win the team match 2-1. We played in the cold part of Fort Snelling Tennis facility. They claim to heat it, but you could have fooled me.