Start of Our Cruise

I have seen the glory...
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What a long day. Got up at 7:00 to get ready to go to the airport. Check in, security, and the long walk to C13 for an hour wait to board. Fly to Spokane, fly to Denver, change planes. Fly to Ft. Lauderdale - my butt hurts from 10 hours of sitting. Nearly 11 PM when we landed and got our luggage. The Hilton Marina didn't answer the phone, so we took an uneventful taxi to the hotel! (Always a plus, since our trip to Falls Church, VA., and our near-death experience in Los Angeles). The hotel was not quite a dump, but it was sub-standard for a Hilton. No drinking glasses in the room - a Motel 6 has glasses in the room! The air conditioning system was odd - it clunked when turning off - I mean CLUNK! I thought a truck had rammed the building the first time it shut down. Must have gotten used to it, because we slept for 10 hours.
But there is a bright spot (pun intended)!
Flying into Denver, coming in on a northbound route we saw a phenomenon. Sometimes you see the shadow of the plane on the clouds when flying above the clouds (I know, "Well, Duh!"). When the lineup of the sun, plane, and shadow is just right, there is a halo around the shadow, a rainbow ring. I asked the flight attendant what that particular phenomenon was called (couldn't recall what it was called). The attendant didn't know, but suggested I ask the captain. When I caught up with him in the terminal, he thought it was a rainbow. Yeah, I knew that. So we looked it up in Wikipedia (you know, you can't trust everything you read there...)
We saw a 'glory'. When you see one from a plane, it is called a 'glory of the pilot'. Never saw the captain again to let him know. Oh, well.
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