Vancouver

I am writing from Vancouver, Canada -- spending 3 days facilitating a leadership training course for Electronic Arts managers. Being in Canada you would expect it to be cold -- and it is. Funny thing though is that Vancouver is usually not this cold -- so the natives say. In fact, we got a little snow today and the traffic got crazy, making Kansas City not look quite so bad on the driving in bad weather front. Actually, Vancouver is only a couple hours from Seattle and has similar weather.

The trip is the first stamp on my passport, but the experience has not been that inspiring. Spent 2 hours trying get past the border. First we waited over 30 minutes just to get to an agent, then were swooped into the building to be interrogated by a border guard. Interesting interrogation: "Why you coming to Canada?" . . . "What do you do that a Candadian company cannot do?" . . . and so on. Found out we needed special work permits to enter the country. They spent over an hour determining this. I think it would have been easier to simply visit a friend!

Rockhurst will look good when I am back on Friday.