Thanks to Ed Cannan not teaching his son the importance of reading military time, we were turned away from the check-in desk at Sydney airport for arriving 5 hours too early! Sure we needed to get here early to score Dave a luxurious exit seat to house his mammoth tree trunks for the 9 hour journey to Honolulu, but 5 hours?!?! come oooonnnn! All was not lost however. We experienced CELEBRITY SIGHTING #1 in the hoax-checkin-line. Paul Mac was immediately ahead of us, slightly balding, mildly grey-speckled and a little bit smelly. Looked as though he'd flown in for a gig, missed a night of sleep and was heading straight back out of Sydney this afternoon. So he COULD have been on our flight to Honolulu, had he been as incapable of reading 24 hour time
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