July 24th Travel Day

Hi everyone,


Today started out pretty well. Bright sunny skies, warm temperatures and the excitement of getting ready for the BIG trip.

There were two large groups leaving today. One group was to leave around 2 pm via Delta Airlines to Narita and then on to Hong Kong arriving at 10:30 pm the next day. The other group, a smaller one, was leaving at 6:30pm on Air Canada to Vancouver and then direct into Hong Kong arriving at 6:30 am the next day.

As fate would have it the Delta flight was canceled. By my count and that of Sue Fischer's 15 out of 16 from the first group were re-routed on the Vancouver bound flight at 6:30.

So picture a DeHaviland DH8 loaded with two groups of Wasabians, all very grateful that the cancellation of the first group resulted in no worse of a delay than four hours. There were 4 non-Wasasbians on the plan that I am sure were wondering what they had gotten into by taking that flight. We all arrived safely in Vancouver and now we get to hurry up and wait.

It is 10:45 pm and we are all sitting at gate D51 in the Vancouver airport waiting for the Sidney flight to leave so we have room to breath. We then get to wait another two hours until our flight leaves at 2:00am.

That's all for now. Time to find a place to try and take a nap.



Larry