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Lost in Calgary
... checking hotels to see if there was any vacancies. All of downtown Calgary were booked out, so we had to drive to a hotel area North of the city which was acting as overflow accommodation for the downtown hotels. We arrived at a hotel which we stayed at around 11:30pm, quickly had dinner and went to sleep.
The next morning, we packed our bags, and drove to the Calgary international airport, where we boarded a plane and flew back to Vancouver and arrived around 2pm Vanc time.
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You've Got To Be Kidding Me!
... been rebooked. After waiting on hold for at least 45 minutes to speak with an agent, we elected to give up and simply drive over to the airport and try to get this resolved directly. While I waited on hold, we'd begun to see all the dire warnings on the Weather Channel and CNN -- of States of Emergency up and down the eastern seaboard, mandatory evacuations, thousands of canceled flights, etc.
We split up at the airport, as ...
1,600 miles to Cow Town
Calgary is the largest city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately 80 km (50 mi) east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies. The city is located in the Grassland region of Alberta.
In 2006, the City of Calgary had a population of 988,193 making it the third-largest municipality in the country and largest in Alberta. The entire metropolitan area had a 2006 population of ...
The friendlies are killing me slowly
... right behind me and sitting in the aisle and window seat with the middle seat left open. then along comes another girl (unknown to the friendlies) and sits in the middle, so i think that the 2 friendlies will just change seats.......nope, no way. they talked around and through this poor girl for 6 hours and did not shut up the entire time except towards the end when everyone was waking up. the only light on in the entire plane was ...
Who knew that it took that much work!
... of the group showed up and the day went well.
Made my way to the hotel - too nackered to do anything else and promptly fell asleep waiting for the phone call from my Curling team. I Coach a team from BC and a team from Alberta and both of them were doing their debrief and yearly planning for next year - on the same day!
I slept through about 5 attempts to get me to answer and we had a great chat - me and the ladies from ...


