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Monday morning I woke up bright & early (like 5AM kinda early) at Jan-Louise's place in Vancouver. JL is one of my Mum's best friends & has lived in Vancouver for the past 5 or 6 years. She was living over here when I spent the year in Canada & I spent a lot of time with her then. Coming back to Vancouver & to JL's place feels a little like coming home…it's really lovely to be back :)
I spent most of Monday sitting around at JL's place waiting and waiting and waiting on my bag to arrive from the airport. I spent one excruciating hour on the phone to the lost baggage Air Canada (situated not in Canada, but somewhere in India) trying to extract a single iota of useful information. They'd told me to bag would arrive at 7AM, but when there was no bag & no phone call by 10AM I was getting worried…all they could tell me was that it was scheduled to arrived in Vancouver the night before. They had no idea if it had left NYC, been through Toronto, or made it onto the flight to Vancouver from there. Actually they really had no idea about anything at all. Just lots of pre-rehearsed, scripted lines like "Madam, please repeat your question to help me understand how I can best help you". I'm ordinarily a fairly patient person but 45 minutes into the phone call my blood pressure was steadily rising & I was demanding to speak to a supervisor.
The delivery company didn't call until 230PM & the bag showed up about an hour later. Fortunately it came back un-slashed, un-duct-taped & with everything still inside. I was really quite surprised about that…I intend to write a strongly worded letter to Air Canada suggesting some sort of further compensation…perhaps an upgrade on my next flight :D
So really not much to report from Monday, given the entire day was wasted waiting for luggage, but I did have a really lovely evening chatting with JL & eating real, fresh food again! Hurrah! :)
P.S. The photo accompanying this blog clearly wasn't taken this day because I didn't GO anywhere this day...it's just a pretty picture :P
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