Our slow flight across the world!

New Zealand

Well. 

It’s been quite the experience already and we thought the adventure would be in NZ, not Canada.  We showed up nice and early Christmas morn to fly to Edmonton where we would catch a connecting flight to Vancouver, stay the night and then fly to NZ the next day.  

Apparently not.

Our flight out of Saskatoon was delayed by 6 hours(!) because Air Canada lost a crew member and had to fly in another.  We weren’t too worried considering our connecting flight out of Edmonton wasn’t for some hours and Air Canada was nice enough to switch us to a sooner flight and buy us lunch.  Le sigh.  It wasn’t meant to be.  On our arrival into Edmonton we were greeted with the news that all flights to Vancouver were cancelled but you were only privy to that information if you were fortunate to have access to a computer because the poor 2 agents that were left to deal with 300 stranded passengers on Christmas day were too overwhelmed to give us any information other than they would make an announcement as soon as they could.  Well, given the tears in these girls’ eyes and the two large RCMP who were called to guard them, we took matters into our own hands.  We booked a hotel, took a shuttle and were cosy in our beds by 9pm. We didn’t actually get through to Air Canada until 5:30 this morning but we were fortunate enough to reschedule our flight (they brought in a Boeing 777 to accommodate all the stranded passengers) and we are presently waiting in Vancouver for our flight to Auckland!  Although the delays of yesterday were the fault of Air Canada and the fact they didn’t have enough flight crew to fly us anywhere, we think that we may be seeing a little more of Vancouver than intended since (and I type this as I look out the window of the international terminal) there is a fair amount of snow coming down.  It is supposed to rain so who knows.  

And people mocked me for packing pillows!  HA!  

So that is it for now.  We’ll keep you updated and hopefully soon enough you’ll see us in all of our pastiness in shorts and flip flops.

~Sarah

5 thoughts on “Our slow flight across the world!”

  1. Hello from the Northern Bird Family. We all hope you guys have lots of fun and have a safe time while you are there. Glad you were able to get out of the country during the snow storms!

    Lots of love and prayers.

    Bird Family

  2. Hi guys! I had a good laugh over the craziness of your trip! Good thing you planned to leave a day early!! I am glad that you made your flight to Vancouver…with only a little stress. Take care and we’ll look forward to keeping up to date with your great adventure.
    Bonnie

  3. Oh, you 4 have been so on my mind as of late – I had hoped that you might have missed out on the weather/Air Canada mishaps, but I see from your posting that that is not the case. Sheesh. I can only hope that the troubles are such that you will appreciate your time in balmier climes all the more – all the best to all of you, and know that you are in my thoughts! I am so going to live vicariously…

  5. Hey you guys where are you now ?? It is one day away from New Years Eve, I’ve been thinking alot about you and your adventure and how after Vancouver are you making out ?? Please email me and let me know how you are ??? How’s the boys ??? Talk soon, Roxanne

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