Westerns Prince George

Hello all.  Well, here we are, the intrepid team off to the great adventure of westerns!  The flight time for this morning was dismally early but everyone arrived at the airport at 4:45 AM to begin sorting and weighing ski bags.  Strangely there was a REALLY BIG LINE UP to check in and we found out that the reason was a cancelled flight to Vancouver.  Yes, our flight.  Now in order to keep our group together (13 of us) we had to wait until 4:45 PM (NOT a typo).  We mostly handled this information with grace, plus or minus groaning and with a healthy helping of disbelief (last phrase stolen directly from Alan).

Pauline swung into full super manager mode.  In short order we had secured food vouchers for 2 meals each and 5 hotel rooms at the nearby Four Points hotel.  We watched the Olympic sprints on our devices over breakfast and discovered that Alan had an uncanny instinct for choosing what he thought would be the sprint winners.  Unfortunately for the first 3 heats this proved disastrous for each and every skier he chose, with Alan's pick either crashing or finishing last!  Alan redeemed himself on the men's final by backing the winning Norwegian.

We then headed over to get some rest.  Most of us slept for at least a few hours and Alex claims to have reached REM sleep state.  Go Alex!

Well . . . .the day passed one way or another and it was a very long one.  This update comes to you from Vancouver airport at 8:00 PM local time, 10:00 PM Winnipeg time. . .one hour until we can finally get on the plan to PG. 

 

And here we are finally at Prince George airport close to midnight.