Two steps back...

What a whirlwind today turned out to be. First we woke up to a blanket of snow. Oh Edmonton!


Since our flight wasn’t leaving until 5.30pm we had lots of plans for the day. Including final packing.


At 9.35 am we received a text message from KLM letting us know our direct flight to Amsterdam had been cancelled. Well, that’s inconvenient.


Mom got on the phone to our travel agent, Tami, from Cruise Vacations to let her know. Tami was on it. At first we thought we were on a 3.30pm flight to Vancouver and then on to Amsterdam (on KLM) so we started planning around that. At 10:45 we received an urgent call...we had to get to the airport right away because flights changed and we needed to fly to Seattle at 1.15 pm and then on to Amsterdam. On Delta. We had to go through US customs so it was important we get to the airport ASAP. I was still cleaning the house, had not finished packing and James was in the shower. We did it though. We cleared customs and were sitting at the gate by noon. And the flight to Seattle was delayed. After de-Icing (yes it’s September 13) we were off.


I’m not sure what I threw in my bag before we bolted out of the house. It’ll be a surprise when I open it in Delft. For the past two weeks I have been trying to decide which shoes to bring and I don’t even know what I ended up throwing in my suitcase. I feel guilty for not saying a proper good bye to Phin and Westley.


James and I have been talking about taking a trip to Seattle to look at Airstreams. I don’t think we will have time to sneak that in!


Delta served peanuts in flight. I thought peanuts on a plane had gone the way of smoking on a plane. Who knew!

Since our flight wasn’t leaving until 5.30pm we had lots of plans for the day. Including final packing.

At 9.35 am we received a text message from KLM letting us know our direct flight to Amsterdam had been cancelled. Well, that’s inconvenient.

Mom got on the phone to our travel agent, Tami, from Cruise Vacations to let her know. Tami was on it. At first we thought we were on a 3.30pm flight to Vancouver and then on to Amsterdam (on KLM) so we started planning around that. At 10:45 we received an urgent call...we had to get to the airport right away because flights changed and we needed to fly to Seattle at 1.15 pm and then on to Amsterdam. On Delta. We had to go through US customs so it was important we get to the airport ASAP. I was still cleaning the house, had not finished packing and James was in the shower. We did it though. We cleared customs and were sitting at the gate by noon. And the flight to Seattle was delayed. After de-Icing (yes it’s September 13) we were off.

I’m not sure what I threw in my bag before we bolted out of the house. It’ll be a surprise when I open it in Delft. I know I didn’t pack a rain jacket so here’s hoping it doesn’t rain! For the past two weeks I have been trying to decide which shoes to bring and I don’t even know what I ended up throwing in my suitcase. I feel guilty for not saying a proper good bye to Phin and Westley.

James and I have been talking about taking a trip to Seattle to look at Airstreams. We don’thave time to sneak that in!

Delta served peanuts in flight. I thought peanuts on a plane had gone the way of smoking on a plane. Who knew!

We are waiting to board our flight to Amsterdam and we are scheduled to arrive at 12.45 pm Amsterdam time (thats 2:45am Edmonton time).

Here we go...