04 MAR 2010:  Dad got more than a detention for this one. The Federal Aviation Administration suspended an air traffic controller and a supervisor after they permitted the controller’s elementary-school-aged child to direct air traffic at New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. Now it’s been learned that everybody had so much fun, a second child, was allowed the same privileges the following day.  An investigation is underway.

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No idea is too farfetched these days!  A Czech travel agency is offering escorted trips for toys.  In the past week, the venture’s website has logged over 15,000 visitors. The concept is simple -  send them your favourite stuffed animal and they will escort it around the sights of Prague, taking photographs of the stuffed critter against backgrounds like Prague Castle or the Charles Bridge. The company was inspired by the 2001 film “Amelie”, in which the heroine has pictures of her father’s garden gnome posed in front of various world landmarks sent to him to convince him to fulfill his dream of touring the world.

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YOU KNOW YOU’VE BOOKED A CHEAP FLIGHT WHEN…

As you board the plane, you notice the co-pilot is frowning and wearing an “I’m with Stupid” T-Shirt.

The Captain announces over the intercom the Flight is delayed while he looks for his keys.

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Published in the London Telegraph

1. A tourist at a top African game lodge overlooking a waterhole, who spotted a visibly aroused elephant, complained that the sight of this rampant beast ruined his honeymoon by making him feel “inadequate”.

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Southwest Airlines is getting to be quite well known for it’s entertaining flight attendants! 

If you’ve ever had trouble paying attention the airplane safety briefing, you might want to fly with this guy: Dave - the rapping flight attendant.(Here is the uninterrupted version: FULL VERSION)

Also, enjoy this country and western welcome from another flight attendant,  an ode to Southwest  to the tune of Jingle Bells, and finally, this is more fast talking than singing, but very funny.

These BEACH SCULPTURES  from around the world are really cool!  What do you think??

Often a hotel is just a place to lay your head, more a means to an end than a destination.  That isn’t the case at these EXTREMELY unusual hotels!   Click the links and scroll through the pictures in the top right: PART ONE, and PART TWO.  Imagine what it would be like to spend the night in some of these places!  My favourite is the Poseiden Resort, although at $30K US per week I don’t know how often I will be booking it!

He is an inspiration to some, a revulsion to others, but a fascination to many.

At his class reunion he won awards for most weight gained, most hair lost, most improved odour, and person who travelled the least to be there… but since September 2003 he has travelled 46954 kilometres.   

His brilliant daughter humilates him, he frequently tries to strangle his son, and is only occasionally aware of his baby daughter, and yet he loves his children to distraction, and they love him back.

He considers his greatest achievement discovering a meal between breakfast and brunch.   

He is a failure but never loses our sympathy.  He always gives in to tempation, but without fail he comes back to home and hearth in a reaffirmation of family values.  

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Occasionally, airline flight attendants make an effort to make the “in-flight safety lecture” a bit more entertaining. Here are some real examples that have been heard or reported:

“As we prepare for takeoff, please make sure your tray tables and seat backs are fully upright in their most uncomfortable position.”

“There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 6 ways out of this airplane…”

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