I completely sympathize. I'm waiting for two kilts. They haven't been sent, but I'm sure that the holiday can't be speeding things up!

And I see it this way: If Columbus hadn't discovered America someone else would have...not counting the Vikings who were here a few centuries earlier, or the Indians who were here 30,000 years earlier. I think Columbus gets the credit because "In 1187 Lief Ericson sailed the ocean blue" just doesn't flow. I know my dates are not exact...I didn't take the time to look them up.