On a recent Seattle flight from Detroit, there was pretty ugly fog blanketing the airport and it was down to a single runway.

The mitigation was for us to head south of the airport to Olympia or so, then turn around and head north to the airport again.

The copilot made an announcement about Mount Rainier - first announcing it for passengers on the left side of the aircraft, and then getting some chuckles by announcing it again for passengers on the right after we did our U-turn to line up for landing.

The best part was that one of the flight attendants seemed just as excited as the passengers to look out the window to see it, which made me ^