Early start today. Taxi picked up 6.40 am. Clive had the bags out on the catwalk at 6.20 am. He is worse than me for time keeping! We are lucky, all goes to plan. We put my bags in the hold - there is a Delta area at the Airport, and a desk outside to drop off your bags. We were the only ones there, so it was soon done. Off for some breakfast and wait for flight. All on time, off we go. First flight to Atlanta. Change planes - about an hours wait. Next flight to Minneapolis on time. Two hours wait. Next flight to Vancouver - delayed! Ended up only being 20 mins late landing, so not too bad. Got a taxi to hotel and arrived 8.40 pm ( their time - three hours behind Forida)
I seem to end up adopting a young man from Brazil - Pablo. He was sat next to me in the airport lounge and then next to me on the plane. After we had been flying for a while, I could hear him crying and he was sniffing. Not sure what to? Eventually he seemed so upset, I got out some tissues and just passed them to him. He was greatful and said he was going to Vancouver for six months to language school to improve his English. Once we got chatting. - he was still at college - he seemed a lot happier. He showed me his paperwork with a picture of the house where he was staying for a month. He also new about the family he was staying with. He had only ever been away from his family for 15 days before. And as I had guessed, he had left his girlfriend behind!
Clive had slept all through this episode. Probably as well. Not really a 'man thing' to deal with. When we left the plane he shook my hand and thanked me. I told him his English was really very good and he was going to be fine. My good deed for the day!
We were lucky the restaurant was still serving a light menu when we arrived. We ate and were ready for some sleep.
Long day, but Vancouver looks like its going to be great!
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