I felt compelled to share this story with my blog readers because it just truly warms my heart thinking back to what happened yesterday.
*A* was suppose to go to Thunder Bay for work yesterday morning, but a few hours later, I got a call from him asking me to guess where he was. Of course, Thunder Bay would have been my natural first guess, but I knew there was something more to his call if he was calling me to ask where he was. And where did he say he was you might ask? WINNIPEG, which is so ironic because *A* is from Winnipeg!! As it turned out, the freezing rain that had came on Monday morning in Thunder Bay was making the landing strip at the airport very icy so all planes were diverted somewhere else to land.
While Thunder Bay is relatively close to Winnipeg, what are the odds that *A* would be on that flight that had to land somewhere else and would land in Winnipeg of all places?! It made me laugh when he told me because I instinctively thought of the saying, "All roads lead home." How surprised were *A*'s parents when he called them and told them to come pick him up at the airport because he was at the airport in Manitoba?! I'm sure it was one of the best surprises for them.
It just goes to show that some mornings when you wake up, you just never know where your day will take you, or in this case, where your airplane will land. There is something sentimental about this little 'diversion' to Winnipeg that just yanks at my heart strings. I'm sure *A* and his family loved the quick 24 impromptu holiday he had with them.
Stories like this make me fully believe that it really is true-- all roads really do lead home :)
