back from Cali. and i missed everybody tons!
so... officially, i HATE air canada. let me tell you why. everything was going fine and dandy for my flight out of edmonton. i was actually 10 minutes early... woo hoo. i get to vancouver where i'm supposed to meet the rest of my family (holly from vic. and the others from kelowna) and i find out that holly's flight has been delayed about 15 minutes... which is funny because it's like a 16 minute flight anyways. i then turn on my cell phone to send some texts when i get a message from jess saying that their flight has been delayed a couple of hours so weener and me are supposed to just go through customs and catch our connection and hopefully meet up with the 'rents at LAX afterwards. so everything there worked out fine for me and holly. we get to LA and i call my dad, only to find out that they are STILL in kelowna and might not get out until the next day... so we are now stuck in los angeles with nobody... and are slightly freaking out. we end up catching a shuttle to our hotel, that was more like a resort (which was super nice! oh my goodness... considering that last time we were down there we squashed 6 people into one tiny room, and this time we had 2 adjoining rooms and each room had 2 rooms. SO NICE!) so hol and i go over to the hotel restaurant and get some de-lic-ious dinner and then go back to the room to chill. we get a call at 12:30am from dad that they have been sent from calgary to san francisco. WHAT?! that's not right... and they are booked onto a flight for that morning to LA. so they finally get there around 11 or noon. WOOT. except... with no luggage! in all the plane switching, etc. their bags got sent somewhere else so we had to go shopping to get the four of them some clothing, etc. as soon as we were leaving the mall we get a call that their bags have arrived and will be at the hotel around 7pm that night... around 10pm they have still not arrived and didn't actually get there until around 8am the next morning! FRICK! so thankfully that was all done with and we could get on with the fun times (i'll post about those later!)
so... yesterday we got off for vancouver with no problems... the connection went smoothly and everything was great. we get into kelowna last night and discover that out of 11 bags, only 8 have arrived... and mine was one of the missing ones. luckily they came in on the next plane only about an hour later... but needless to say, air canada has caused us so much grief that they will definitely not be getting any of our business again. stupid frickin' airline! BUT the trip was frickin' amazing and everybody had such a great time! i've got a lot of cool stuff to tell everybody about. so now i'm just sitting here waiting for rea to come pick me up to go to k-loo. vancouver tonight!