We woke up early to give Air Canada a call to see what was going to happen with our flight. Basically, the earliest flight they can rebook us on will be on April 21st to Frankfurt, and we will be on a queue for a flight to Paris in case they decide to fly extra planes because of the backlog from the cancelled flights. We did not want to spend 6 days in Toronto, so we decided to take a train to Montreal instead and to (hopefully) catch a flight from there to Frankfurt. I really really really hope that volcanic ash cloud is blown away and that our flight to Frankfurt isn't cancelled. I worked so hard to get the vacation days for this trip, and I want to spend it in Europe!!!
Luckily, Rae has a cousin living in Montreal, and her cousin's boyfriend has graciously given us his extra condo (which he usually rents out) in Old Montreal for us to stay in.
If things had gone according to plan, I would be in Paris right now, about to wake up to go climb the Eiffel Tower in the early morning.....Throughout the past two days I have been telling Rae to look at the good side: we are alive, healthy, and not in Baghdad.
Yes, thank the Olympian gods that you're not in Baghdad! (Funny since it's what we were anticipating in Athens...)
ReplyDeleteAnd keep thinking positive! Better to avoid the ash cloud than to have become part of it!
i'll huff and i'll puff and blow all the ash down!
ReplyDeletei think that's how it goes? haha