A couple of years ago, my parents were supposed to take a cruise to Alaska. But, sadly, my father became too ill to go. So my wife and I generously offered to take their tickets and go on the cruise for them.
We had to change their excursions to ones more appropriate to our tastes. And one thing we really looked forward to was a helicopter ride to a glacier. But when we got there, the weather was awful.
The helicopter guys told us that they would not fly in that weather and offered us another day. But our ship was only in that port for that day. We were sad, but ...
The guy said there was another helicopter operator who was less risk averse than they were and he said they would probably operate in that weather. I first thought he must be joking.
So we went to the other operator and they said they would fly and they had plenty of openings because most of their reservations cancelled due to weather. Score!
The weather was terrible in flight, but awesome at the glacier. We had an amazing time. And also, this happened: 
Of course, it was just a joke. :)
Here's a few more pictures:
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