Canada, the true north strong and free, is celebrating her 150th anniversary of Confederation on July 1st. Having travelled to many parts of the world, but never explored much of Canada, we decided this would be the year. We've wanted to visit Atlantic Canada and tour around the Maritimes for some time. And with all the craziness going on in the world we figured this would be a great time to make this happen.
Our travel day started with a 5:45am wake up call, but not because of our flight. It so happened that the Scotia half marathon race was the morning of our flight. So that beautiful, warm Sunday morning I ran the extremely scenic race. After the race we head home and finished the last bit of prep before heading off to the airport to catch our flight.
Seems as those every time we fly Air Canada something annoying happens. First a good moment...the agent at he check in contermwas super friendly, helpful and efficient. Yes I used efficient to describe something about Air Canada. Everything was fine until we were about to takeoff. Just after we pushed back from the gate one of the flight attendants comes on the microphone and asks if there is any medical personnel on the flight because there was a medical situation on board. It was all happening behind us and we couldn't really see what was going on and also didn't want to stare, but after a couple minutes it was decided that we should carry on with the flight. Not more than 20 minutes in the air we see a flight attendant run down the aisle to the front to get the head flight attendant. It seemed as though whatever the medical situation was with the passenger was not better and the decision was made to turn the flight around and head back to Vancouver. While it's good that we didn't continue the flight because someone was obviously not able to fly the 4.5 hour flight, what really got me was how that decision couldn't have been made while we were still on the ground. I can't imagine what that decision to carry on cost the airline. All in all the flight was delayed 2.5 hours which brought us into Montreal just after 3am leaving us little time to sleep before we had to catch our morning flight to Fredericton. Probably wouldn't have been so bad if the day had not started with an early wake up and 21.1km run.
After a couple hours of shut eye we boarded our flight to Fredericton to start our great Canadian adventure.
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