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Well it’s been a busy past few weeks as I’ve travelled to the east for Christmas with my family and starting to plan my wedding!

First off, it was great to get home for 9 days during Christmas since I hadn’t been home in a couple months. Caitlin was supposed to arrive on Boxing Day but Air Canada cancelled all of their flights into Moncton due to freezing rain. However, CanJet never turned back and their flights kept coming into Moncton during the storm. So, after 2 cancelled flights from Montreal to Moncton and a night in a shady hotel in Montreal, Caitlin finally made it into Fredericton. My dad and I headed out for the 2 hour drive on the snowy roads to pick her up. Her flight arrived on time, but her luggage, along with everyone else on the plane, was still in Montreal due to a weight restriction. The next flight was supposed to be arriving in an hour, but of course it was delayed by an additional hour, so we had some waiting to do. After getting all of her luggage, we finally made it back to Moncton.

The time we had in Riverview was quite relaxing even though we did alot of things as well and it would have been nice to have a couple extra days to do everything we wanted. We ended up buying the engagement ring in Moncton, our small piece of the Maritimes that we could bring back to the west.

On our way back to Calgary we had some more “fun” with Air Canada. First off, we only had a 30 minute stop-over in Montreal to catch our connection to Toronto. It would be tight but doable. However, our plane was delayed for 45 minutes in Moncton and we arrived into Montreal at 7:00pm exactly… the same time as our Toronto flight was taking off. Conveniently (and I mean that sarcastically), our flight was right on time and left just as we were running to the gate. Why are the flights that you arrive early for are delayed and the ones you need to be delayed are always on time?! We waited in the Montreal airport for another hour and a half since they had another flight going to Toronto. It was, of course, delayed which made it look iffy for us making the Calgary connection in Toronto. We finally arrived into Toronto and what was supposed to be a 2.5 hour wait if all of our previous flights were on time, we now had to run to the gate in order to catch our flight to Calgary. We made it in time, and of course the flight was delayed again. After 10 hours of travelling, we made it into Calgary at 1:20am. By some divine miracle which I am still amazed at, Air Canada did not lose our luggage. Somehow, for some reason, it actually made it to Calgary!

So, now it’s mid-January and Caitlin and I are starting to plan our wedding… which will be here in Alberta on May 13. Last nite was our “4 months left” date and I’m sure the time will go by really fast!