From Ware to Calgary

• Sunday 14 September 2008 - Arrived

After the delays of our first trip to Calgary in June, this trip was a doddle. We had to be up at 5:00am to get to Gatwick, but that made the traffic lighter. Julie dropped me off and in I walked. In June this meant a nine hour delay and the most boring day of my life. This time it was 45 mins delay and a quick check in. I flew Thomas Cook this time. Luckily decided not to fly Zoom, and have vowed never to fly Globespan again. I had paid the extra to choose my seat got a window seat by the exit so lots of leg room. It's quite a dull flight to Calgary. After flying up England and Scotland it's just snow and water till you are nearly there. Iceland and Greenland were cloud covered so no relief. I think it took about 45 mins from landing to walking out to meet my brother in law, is that a record. One nice thing was I bought two bottles of Whiskey (yes with an e cos it was Irish) in duty free. When filling in the landing form I noticed you were only allowed one. I'll have to pay the duty I suppose. The immigration guy mentioned it but let me off! On the drive from the airport we had a great view of the Rockies, so they do exist! On our last visit the were hidden in clouds for the week. It's very sunny and quite warm. I helped my BiL assemble a BBQ. In England this would take 5 mins and involve screwing the legs onto a big bowl and putting a grill in place. Here it involved putting together a major piece of engineering, it took most of the afternoon, and lifting the grill part took both of us! All that with jet lag. My BiL and his wife have just moved in to a new house which is great. I suppose it's a fairly typical Canadian house, 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms but it has so much space. the master bedroom has a walking in closet about the size of an English box bedroom! Very light and airy. Well being called upon to help out at the BBQ so more updates later. SM Job hunting starts in in earnest tomorrow with phone calls

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