After an easy navigation of the Santiago Airport, followed unfortunately by a completely incompetent local Air Canada bunch of employees who seemed to be enjoying their own little office party rather than serving customers, we flew back to Buenos Aires about an hour behind schedule in Executive Class on one of AC´s new configuration 777s.
It´s quite a space-age kind of design, with blue lights giving it something of the ambiance of a Disney ride, but it was pleasant.
We caught a Remise to the hotel, enjoyed a late breakfast this morning, and eagerly awaited the delivery of enough bottles of Malbec to fill our shipping box. We´ll keep our fingers crossed that our wine travels safely as we fly EZE-IAD-LAX-SEA-BLI on a combination of United and Alaska.
We fly out of here around 10:00 p.m. local time, two hours ahead of Eastern Standard and are due to arrive in IAD Dulles around 6:00 a.m. Yes, it will be nice to be back home in Birch Bay after all of the travel and excitement of the past few weeks.
We´re especially looking forward to seeing all of our grandkids and find out if their postcards arrived.
Kathy and Brian
Two retired educators alternating joyfully between seeing the world and enjoying our eight grandchildren (in order of birth), Jake, Avery, Taegan, Lily, Peyton, Riley, Blane, and Jace.
Kathy and Brian met in the clarinet section of the University of California (Santa Barbara) Symphony Orchestra several decades ago.
Brian's Western Canadian roots and Kathy's Colorado ties resulted in their making beautiful music together along with producing a cross-border crop of descendants.
Kathy spent a year studying in Vienna at the Institute for European Studies and the University of Vienna.
Brian started the school band program in Hope, British Columbia, and later became the high school's vice-principal for 6 years and subsequently principal for 15 years before retiring in 2001.
Kathy, in between raising our three children, taught kindergarten and first grade, middle school, and high school - mathematics, computer studies, ESL, and her first love, band, before retiring in 2001.
We enjoy sharing our travel experiences and providing the odd travel tip to friends, relatives, and visitors.