After our last blog post we were hurriedly rushed on to our plane for boarding. As the plane was loading Eric had pointed out a massive storm headed our way and as the last person got on and the doors were closed the storm had completely enveloped us. This meant that a great deal of ice started to form on the wings. Eric being as smart as he is had figured out that this would happen but apparently the crew at LHR wasn’t exactly on the ball. We spent the next two hours sitting on the ground waiting to be de-iced and sweltering because in order to de-ice a plane you have to turn off the AC. (You’d think someone would have figured out how to do it without frustrating a plane full of a couple hundred customers.)
Finally our plane took off and away we went to Beautiful British Columbia! To combat the expected Jet-Lag we both tried valiantly to stay up during the flight and Eric didn’t do all that well. By the end of the flight I was repeatedly pinching him trying to keep him awake and he was sleeping right through it.
We arrived at Heather and Glen’s around 2300hrs and by this time we were exhausted. I was so tired I was actually slurring my words and generally drunk on a lack of sleep. You don’t realize what sleep deprivation can do to you until you try and have a coherent conversation. The conversation didn’t last too long and we were all off to bed.
Today we went for a walk with Glen around his community and grabbed a Starbucks...mmmmm, good coffee is so hard to come by!
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