Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Friday and Saturday in Kelowna/Vancouver
Ok this was a crazy day. So on Friday I basically spent it finishing laundry and packing. It took longer than I thought. My dad was still in Calgary visiting his sick father and he wouldn't be able to make it to say goodbye before I left. He was quite worried about this but I said not to worry because I'll be here for a while, his dad won't. So I got all packed up and had to be ready for about 6:30 cause my flight was at 8:30 to fly from Kelowna to Vancouver. I got everything all ready to go and my mom took me to the airport. It was snowing like crazy. We arrive at the airport and the flight was already delayed about 30 mins. This was ok, as long as I could get there eventually I was happy. So we get to security screening and my mom has her moment of saying goodbye/crying. Just as I'm about to say goodbye and pass through security, some people walk out and say the Vancouver flight was cancelled. Cancelled? What, how could this be? I've never had a westjet flight cancelled, this couldn't be. So yup, it was true, they cancelled the flight. Uh oh... What to do? I can't miss my flight the next day to go to Singapore and onto Bangkok. So we left the airport and were told to call westjet customer service and they'd "take care of us". So I called them and the next flight they could accomodate me on was like 2 days later... Not going to work. So I called Greyhound with a low battery and thought we'd try that route. It was either Greyhound or we'd have to take the envoy to Vancouver (Which my mom was really not wanting us to do). My sister had offered to drive me through the night, which was really nice! So I got a hold of Greyhound and they said there was one bus ride tonight from 11:15 to 6am. This would probably work except that the office to buy the ticket doesn't open until 11pm and even then there was no guarentee I could get a seat because they don't reserve seats, they just sell the tickets for travel anytime. So we wait at my sisters new apartment on Burch for a bit, and then go to the Greyhound bus station. Remember the manager at Joey's that was so apologetic and nice? Yeah she was waiting for the bus too because she was on the Vancouver flight. So we buy a ticket at 11pm and the bus comes and thank god there is room. It was a gong show. The people waiting there were......interesting..... Definitely a different breed of human that's for sure. Ok so thank god I'll get into Vancouver at 6am, my flight to Singapore wasn't until 12:35. Oh, gotta go, I'll update more in a bit...
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