Today's the Day

No picture with this post. Far too foggy out here on the wet coast. We spent the night at friend Lucille's fab place outside Port Moody - close to the water, close to nice hikes, the potential of nice views (when the fog lifts)..... and she drove us to the airport! So we're sittin' here, just sittin' here, waiting until it's time to go through security, find something to eat and wait until boarding time.

So far, the trip excitement was the snow we had to drive thru just to get to Vancouver. The mountain passes are snowy already. Paulson pass west of Castlegar had snow, just not quite enough to ski on. The day after, we ran into new snow and slush on the road not far from Summerland in the south Okanagan. As we got further west, the roads improved, although it did rain harder.

Air New Zealand had lots of agents at their ticket counters, checkin went fine and now we're taking turns hiking around the terminal building just to keep the blood flowing in the extremities. It's going to be a long flight in sitting position. Fortunately I can pace up and down and around the aisles of the plane.....don't expect to be sleeping much.

Next stop.....Auckland.