February 25, 2007 over the Pacific Ocean on Air Canada 058

Going home today – but our flight doesn’t leave until 10:30 p.m.! That is a lot of time to kill with all your luggage packed.

Here is our hotel. We had an early breakfast and went to the beach from about 9 to 11, then returned to our room to shower off the salt and finalize our packing. We had to have our luggage ready for pickup and be checked out by noon.

We walked the beach for an hour, and then walked to the nearby mall again, returning to the hotel bar around 4 to use our second drink chit and have a snack. We then went for another walk before sitting down to visit with the couple from Wainwright who were waiting for the same shuttle we were.

The airport shuttle arrived at 7 and we were all checked in, through security, and settled in the waiting room at 8:30. The flight actually left a few minutes early. They served us supper at 11 and we then watched the animated movie “Flushed Away.” Well, we sort of watched the movie. Both of us were pretty tired and dozed off occasionally throughout. After the movie, we tried to sleep, but the seats were not real comfortable and we weren’t too successful. We expected that they would have the same headrests we found on previous oceanic flights with the moveable “wings” on the headrest to keep your head from flopping over when you fell asleep, so we didn’t bring our inflatable pillows. Another lesson learned for the next trip - take them anyway.