The Scramble

Monday, September 9^th, I had my last day of work (for those of you who don’t know, I worked subway). Since my visa had arrived the previous Thursday, I knew that I would be leaving really soon. My travel agent told me on Friday that I would be given my ticket information on that Monday. So I went to work that day knowing I could get an email at any moment saying when I leave. As you could probably imagine, I could not concentrate all that well on work (sorry Lori). FINALLY I received an email saying the info was available on the website. When I checked the website it said I would be leaving Vancouver airport at 8:10am Thursday, September 12^th. I was ecstatic. Unfortunately, there was no flights available that would take me to Kelowna to Vancouver early enough to make my next flight so my family and I had to pack up and drive to Vancouver WEDNESDAY. That was literally a day and a half notice basically. I am so thankful that I had already been pretty much all packed so I didn’t have to scramble with the gifts and clothes part of the packing. Essentially I had one day to get my stuff together and make sure I got all the little last-minute things.

Luckily I am an excellent packer though! Who knew!? Everything is perfectly in place and all the breakables are secured nicely (mind you it did take a few times to get it perfect but that’s because I may be a little OCD).

I’m going to tell you about my flight schedule… because I was a little freaked out. I go from Vancouver to Dallas to Miami then finally to Belo Horizonte where I will meet my host family. My longest layover is 3 hours which I find just perfect because that gives me lots of time to find where I need to be. These airports are very large and this is the first time I’m flying alone so let’s hope all goes well.

 

I was so worried I would forget something that I think I over-packed… just a tad. But you know what? John Irving… if you are reading this, I thank you so dearly for those printed maps of the Dallas and Miami airports; you are a lifesaver. The funny but not-so-funny part is that those maps are the one thing I forgot to bring with me… my bad. I give you permission to laugh at me.