Day Five - The Journey East
Our last day in Vancouver dawned with fairly good weather - still kind of cloudy, but no rain, and a bit warmer than our last few days. I finally got to go for a ride with Phil and his bike, Dolly - yay! :) It was quite amazing to be zooming along with the mountains beside us .... well, actually all of the zooming in general was a lot of fun! Apparently we hit the speed of 200 km/hr at one point... good girl, Dolly. I was mildly concerned when we got on the highway that my helmet, which was a little bit loose might flip off somehow, but didn't really think that it was a likely outcome.
Then a final flurry of activity as we said our goodbyes, gathered our things and made our way over to the SkyTrain ... a little later than we'd planned, so it was a bit of a rush to get to the airport. Due to a navigational error (mine) we had to walk a little bit to catch the airport bus, but in the end we made it to the check in counter with a few minutes to spare, and got that taken care of. Because we were late, and the flight we were on was overbooked, and a flight after us being cancelled, there weren't any seats together, although we were able to get ones that were one in front of the other. Sadly, they were in the middle row of seats (the seats were in groups of two, aisle, three, aisle, two, and we were in the middle of the middle group), which was a bit confining, but what can you do. I was sitting between a married couple, who were rather annoyed (mostly the wife) that their seats had been split up, but by the same token, the wife didn't want to switch seats to sit in the middle herself (I would have been happy to!). Both the husband and flight attendent asked me directly if I would, but before I could answer, the wife would cut in that she didn't want the middle seat. Oooooookay.
No free meals served on this flight, but I decided to buy a (overpriced) sandwich anyways, as I'd kind of skipped breakfast and knew I'd regret it if I didn't eat something. The movie choice sucked - 'Legend of Zorro' or some nonsense, so I napped for most of the flight, then did some Sudoku. I was kind of disappointed that I didn't have a window seat, as I'd never flown at night before, and was looking forward to seeing the lights of Toronto, but so it goes. We landed, got baggage etc with no troubles, and back to our everyday lives.
I started out the trip as a tourist, but over the course of the stay fell in love with the city, the mix of urban and natural settings. I can definitely see the allure of moving out there, and may consider doing it myself for a short period of time in the future .. we shall see. Not long after our plane home left the ground, I felt myself longing to be back in Vancouver again, I missed it and we had barely left.
Many thanks again to our hosts, Big Phil, Braden and Chris, for showing us around and taking care of us, and making the trip lots of fun! Also to Natalie, it was great meeting you and hanging out with you - hopefully we can do it again sometime.
Until we meet again ....
Many thanks again to our wonderful hosts, Big Phil and his roomies Braden and Chris, for showing us around and
Then a final flurry of activity as we said our goodbyes, gathered our things and made our way over to the SkyTrain ... a little later than we'd planned, so it was a bit of a rush to get to the airport. Due to a navigational error (mine) we had to walk a little bit to catch the airport bus, but in the end we made it to the check in counter with a few minutes to spare, and got that taken care of. Because we were late, and the flight we were on was overbooked, and a flight after us being cancelled, there weren't any seats together, although we were able to get ones that were one in front of the other. Sadly, they were in the middle row of seats (the seats were in groups of two, aisle, three, aisle, two, and we were in the middle of the middle group), which was a bit confining, but what can you do. I was sitting between a married couple, who were rather annoyed (mostly the wife) that their seats had been split up, but by the same token, the wife didn't want to switch seats to sit in the middle herself (I would have been happy to!). Both the husband and flight attendent asked me directly if I would, but before I could answer, the wife would cut in that she didn't want the middle seat. Oooooookay.
No free meals served on this flight, but I decided to buy a (overpriced) sandwich anyways, as I'd kind of skipped breakfast and knew I'd regret it if I didn't eat something. The movie choice sucked - 'Legend of Zorro' or some nonsense, so I napped for most of the flight, then did some Sudoku. I was kind of disappointed that I didn't have a window seat, as I'd never flown at night before, and was looking forward to seeing the lights of Toronto, but so it goes. We landed, got baggage etc with no troubles, and back to our everyday lives.
I started out the trip as a tourist, but over the course of the stay fell in love with the city, the mix of urban and natural settings. I can definitely see the allure of moving out there, and may consider doing it myself for a short period of time in the future .. we shall see. Not long after our plane home left the ground, I felt myself longing to be back in Vancouver again, I missed it and we had barely left.
Many thanks again to our hosts, Big Phil, Braden and Chris, for showing us around and taking care of us, and making the trip lots of fun! Also to Natalie, it was great meeting you and hanging out with you - hopefully we can do it again sometime.
Until we meet again ....
Many thanks again to our wonderful hosts, Big Phil and his roomies Braden and Chris, for showing us around and
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