The shutdown. Sorry, government closed. The last time I was there was the last time they had a shutdown. I didn't really notice except for the locked gates at national parks. Though we sure did laugh about it the whole three weeks we were there.
Just another reason why I don't understand why anyone anywhere would aspire to have their political system. What's wrong with a vote of no-confidence resulting in an election, for example? Sure beats this dicking around and shutting down.
The only thing that wasn't funny was that air traffic controllers were about to close up shop at midnight the day we were leaving back to YYZ. Our flight was scheduled for 23:30. We would have been stuck in Vegas. Needless to say, I was fully prepared to walk north if that were to happen. Vegas is a shithole (unlike Africa).
