Flight to Peru

I{m all tired and jetlagged right now (excuse the punctuation because the symbols on the Spanish keyboard are very differently located). It{s currently 5:45am on March 17, HK time and 5:45pm on March 16, Atlanta time, and 4:45pm on March 16, Lima time. I{m in Atlanta, about to take off to lima in my last leg of the flight. After the five hour wait in the Seoul airport, we were faced wtih a seven hour wait in Atlanta and we really didn{t want to just burn another 7 hours of our life and trip.

Upon arrival in Atlanta, I went through the US Immigration and I{m sure everybody knows what I was faced with - once again after my visit to Seattle and Boston last year. I was questioned as follows, with a straight face:

"Where are you going?"
"Which country do you live in?"
"Why do you have a passport from Canada?" At that point, I couldn{t hold my temper and answered, "Because I{m Canadian?" I almost regretted instantly, but it was too late.
"Where were you born?"
"WHERE were you born?"
"What do you do?"
"What{s the name of your company?"
"How long have you lived in Canada?"
"Did you bring with you any meat... alcohol... bla?"

Then he finally let me off. I was so close to getting myself into trouble. But I really don{t know why he had to pick on me. What the hell did he want to know how long I lived in Canada for_ And the name of the company I work for???

Anyways. After all that, we had a bite of food, and decided to go out to the city for a bit. We took the train and headed downtown. Wow. I guess I can now tell people I{ve been to Atlanta! My friend has never set foot on North America before. She can now tell people she{s visited teh U.S. =)

For some reason, a lot of buildings in downtown Atlanta had broken windows or sufferred from other forms of damage. I don{t know if they were recently struck by some sort of natural disaster like turnadoes or something. I{m going to research on that to find out. The sight was a bit disturbing.

We briefly took a walk to the Centennial Olympic Park, the Georgia Aquarium, and the Coca-Cola Store. Then we had to rush back to the airport to take our next flight. The timing was actually a bit too tight, but we made it nonetheless. So we had our super quick visit to Atlanta and enjoyed the great, dry, sunny, 60F weather out there.

And here I am, in the plane that is about to take off, getting ready to pass out the moment I close my eyes. I will arrive in Lima in approximately 4 hours, at around 11pm on March 16 (GMT-5), or noon on March 17 in HK time.