The Airport Lounge

I have lots of exciting things to post about: the Birkebeiner ski race, my new job, Steve's birthday, the blossoming bulbs in my kitchen, my new short (and very dark) hair and my newly planted tomatos. Unfortunately, I'm sitting in the Legend's Bar and Grill at the Vancouver aiport with limited connection time and no pictures. This is leg three of my busy travelling schedule. I was in Edmonton over the weekend, landed in Whitehorse on Monday night, drove to Ross River on Tuesday, returned on Wednesday night and hopped on an Ottawa flight this morning at 8:00 am.

At this point in the day I'm a nice combination of annoyed and exhausted. I've decided that it is virtually impossible to have a completely pleasent flight. In fact, it seems like in-flight service is steadily declining. My anger-du-jour is that I decided I wanted to only have a carry on instead of checking luggage. I left all my liquid and gel based toiletries in Whitehorse, only to get to the airport and be told that I had to check my bags, because even though they fit in the handy dandy carry on measurer, they weighed 4 pounds too much. After that slight annoyance, I realized that I forgot my running shoes in the hallway at home and so I won't be able to do the Rideau run I was hoping for.

I get on my Air Canada flight to Ottawa in two hours and am already stressed out by the knowledge that I won't get anything to eat on the 5 hour flight and I have to pay for my ear phones if I want to watch the movie. You would think for $825 they could afford to toss me a bag of peanuts and cheap ear buds. I have no cash, so I'll probably spend the next hour scouring the airport for an ATM and something edible (and relatively cheap). I don't land in Ottawa until 10:30 pm and have to be at the Senate for a meeting at 9:00 am tomorrow morning. I haven't checked the Ontario weather lately, but I'm crossing my fingers for sunny and plus 25 C. In fact, while I'm at it, I hope that Ottawa has suddenly become a coastal beach front resort village with free Mai Tais at every restaurant.

Here's to hoping that me and my luggage make it to the Capital.

Sierra posted this on Feb 15, 2007 from the outside | | permanent link