Off to an awesome start. But where to begin?
 
Woke up around 4:30 to do last minute packing and stuff and to the airport at 8. Feel like I haven't done anything to prepare because I don't even know what flight I'm on. Check in - everything's fine for our flight but minutes later, the flight is delayed an hour. So we settle in for the wait - an hour isn't too bad. Then the flight is suddenly pushed back 2 more hours because of delays in B.C. and there's no plane to board. Now it's like I could have gotten up at 8, kicked back at home, and got to the airport at 12. So we're all given $8 dollars for lunch and a credit for our next flight on WestJet and told to go back out of security, try to relax, and come back to the gate at 12:30. Now I'm in the mindset to wait it out, probably finish Brian Eno's Diary, watch traveling crazies, maybe get a quick massage. The relatives at the other end have been notified not to come pick us up at the airport for another 3 hours. Then mere minutes after that call is made, they announce the final boarding for our plane. What the fuck???? Now a plane load of people are rushing back to other side of the airport to get onboard (who knows if we all made it). No time to call ahead to alert everybody that we're actaully coming in earlier (one of the few times I could actually use a cell phone). And the credit towards our next flight is revoked. Where did this plane come from? Is it safe? Is it feuled? Maybe we'll crash in the mountains and we'll have to eat each other to survive.
 
I have a feeling this is going to be the highlight of this trip.......