Canadian Harmony
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 23, 2015
What does that mean? Means: as it happens! I’m going to try to update each day and add photos later. The first few posts will be without pictures, so people can get a quick report. I’ll add photos later - once they’re uploaded someplace that doesn’t charge.
We left our house around 8:30 for a 12:57 flight out of Victoria. We live about an hour away so we wanted to get around any potential problems. Good thing we left early - there was a school bus which hit black ice and took out the trailer of the Canadian men’s Olympic rowing team! One of their sculls went through the driver’s window and he ended up in hospital. None of the kids were injured and the rowing team made it to the lake for practice! But we weren’t going to wait in a long line, so we turned around and went a different route.
A few km down the road, there was tree falling going on, so we were stopped for 10 minutes there. Thankfully, it was clear sailing to the airport.
We were first in line at the Delta desk and made it through security easily. We had about an hour to wait, with a 2 hour connection in Seattle. Turns out, our incoming flight was delayed out of Seattle and instead of leaving at 12:57, we left at 2:25, when our Seattle flight to Santa Ana was boarding! Delta assured us if we missed the flight they would reschedule us on another flight. There were 21 people who needed to make that connection.
After going through customs and security and the train... the 21 of us found ourselves waiting for the 6:50pm flight. My family grabbed a bite to eat, canceled our Rainforest Cafe reservations, moved the Karmel pick up (and was assured of pick up... an hour after landing), and then waited for our flight to board.
So here we sit, expecting to get to our hotel before midnight if all goes well. I wanted MM tomorrow but it doesn’t look like that’s happening now.
Will be back tomorrow with an update!
We left our house around 8:30 for a 12:57 flight out of Victoria. We live about an hour away so we wanted to get around any potential problems. Good thing we left early - there was a school bus which hit black ice and took out the trailer of the Canadian men’s Olympic rowing team! One of their sculls went through the driver’s window and he ended up in hospital. None of the kids were injured and the rowing team made it to the lake for practice! But we weren’t going to wait in a long line, so we turned around and went a different route.
A few km down the road, there was tree falling going on, so we were stopped for 10 minutes there. Thankfully, it was clear sailing to the airport.
We were first in line at the Delta desk and made it through security easily. We had about an hour to wait, with a 2 hour connection in Seattle. Turns out, our incoming flight was delayed out of Seattle and instead of leaving at 12:57, we left at 2:25, when our Seattle flight to Santa Ana was boarding! Delta assured us if we missed the flight they would reschedule us on another flight. There were 21 people who needed to make that connection.
After going through customs and security and the train... the 21 of us found ourselves waiting for the 6:50pm flight. My family grabbed a bite to eat, canceled our Rainforest Cafe reservations, moved the Karmel pick up (and was assured of pick up... an hour after landing), and then waited for our flight to board.
So here we sit, expecting to get to our hotel before midnight if all goes well. I wanted MM tomorrow but it doesn’t look like that’s happening now.
Will be back tomorrow with an update!
