Maui: Day 10?
Well what can I say about my tenth day of vacation. Got into the Vancouver airport a little early, but the 6 hour delay leaving ensured we would never make our connecting flight. We got ourselves on standby with a booked flight for 8:55pm that night. From there we played the chase the terminal game. About every hour a flight is scheduled to leave from Vancouver, so 100 or so people and ourselves move from gate to gate until our name is called (my mother felt it was something like winning the lotto). Sadly, people had been their since the day before waiting for flights, so it was kinda crazy around there. Later in the afternoon a group of Asia travelers must of gotten lost, because they failed to show and several people, including ourselves, got the leave the confines of the airport.
Since we left so late in the day, we spent the night in Calgary. I attempted to book a room at the hotel our vehicle was at, but apparently it was full, so we booked at some hotel on the other side of Calgary (in retrospect, I should of not booked anything and waited…) On the way to the hotel via their shuttle, a couple informed us they too just booked a room and where told there was plenty of space. So, trying our luck, we went in to attempt to book there. Turns out they did have lots of rooms and could fit us in, but we had to somehow cancel our other reservation. Because of the short notice on making the previous reservation, they have some silly policy that you can’t cancel. After much time on hold, they finially give in and let us switch our reservation to the hotel they said had no room, which miraculously now has 32 rooms free.
After that was all settled, we revived the car and ordered some pizza. Set the alarm for 6:30am Calgary time (3:30am Maui time… blech) and went to bed. Next day was hitch free, got to Saskatchewan in record time (6 hours and 23 minutes). Whatever snow storm was being talked about the previous day never materialized for us at any point. The worst conditions we saw was very light snow blowing across the highway.
