To Canada and Beyond

If my next blog is entitled 'Food poisoning'  it's because of the tomato sauce I'm eating right now that tastes pretty funky. Just thought I'd throw that out there. 

So yes, it's true, as the title suggests, I was in Canada for two weeks from Dec 19th-Jan 2 (and I returned to Korea last night). Long story, but I managed to parlay my 5 days holidays into two weeks off and planned to surprise everyone in Victoria. If I talked to you about a conflict at work that I was upset about a couple

 months ago (i.e. Jill) that's what it was about and that's why I was all hush hush about it. 

I enlisted Rebecca (my sister)'s  help and everything went off without a hitch which is kinda of a shocker. It was 26hours of consecutive travelling from doo

r to door...which let me tell you is tooo long. 

It went something like this...

Taxi from Apartment to Bus Station 15mins

Bus to Incheon Intl Airport Seoul 2.5 Hours

Sit in Airport waiting for Flight 3 hours

Flight to Tokyo 3 hours

Sit in Narita Intl Airport 4 hours

Massage Chair 10mins :)

Flight from Tokyo to Vancouver 8 hours

Wait for luggage 75mins :(

Drive with friend from Airport to Ferry 45mins

Ferry to Vancouver Island bad weather route 110 mins

Sleep in Ferry Terminal waiting for Ride 1hour

Drive to Langford 40mins

Ugh. That was not fun. Amazingly, none of those transportation entries had problems. More good fortune, the next day the snow attacked and shut down the airports for several days.....I can't imagine how annoyed I would have been to have been stuck somewhere stupid for days. Somewhere between raging and tempestuous

All the snow kind of put a dent in my surprise tour, but it all worked out in the end. Nobody was expecting me at all, so props to me and Rebecca for secrecy and convincing deception.....

I appeared on our doorstep on the day appointed for tree decorating...and it was quite a special moment...kind of get choked up now that I'm thinking about it actually...must be the cheesy music that's playing right now....anyway....it was fun to see everyones face and that will be a good memory for a long time. 

I think the best reaction was Aunty Co's....though I have to admit I was hiding behind the door and then popped out....so maybe it was surprise and terror together :) Uncle Bill's was also amusing. I answered the door...with something witty like "hey". "hi" he says back not yet registering what's going on... "OH! Hi!" he says as he realizes....

I also got to be in my friends' wedding....Stephen and Alana....or Stalana as they've become known....which was a lot of fun. Bethany, my other sister was in it and so were a lot of friends. So it was quite fun. This is my favourite shot of mine from the day. Signing off to go meet Kyle and Amy at the cafe. Catch y'all later. Yes I said y'all. Deal with it.