Anothr Day .....

Tuesday, November 4, 2008At last we are back in paradise where the living is easy, but not without some concerns during our trip down here. It all started in Halifax where we had planned on flying to Toronto and staying at the Holiday Inn to overnight before catching the early morning flight to Mexico. However it seems that the flight to New York had been canceled and most of those passengers were transferred to our Toronto flight with the result that the flight filled up and we were out of luck since we were travelling on space available. we had already checked in our bags to Toronto but were assured that the bags would not go if we did not go. Kate and I decided that we would fly to Montreal instead and catch the early morning flight from there to Mexico, again we were assured that our bags would be transferred to Montreal, we cancelled our hotel in Toronto and booked into the airport Hilton then went to pick up our bags after arriving in Montreal. Guess what......no bags!Not to panic, we spoke to the girl at the lost luggage who gave us a 1-800 number plus a tracking number which we promptly called upon arrival at the hotel, we were answered by some clown stationed in India,who could hardly speak english and who told us that our bags had gone on to Vancouver from Toronto, after listening to his nonsense for a while,Kate hung up on him and phoned our friend Maggie in Halifax who got in touch with the powers that be and were told to check at the airport in the morning to see if our bags might be there...........Noooooooooo.We had to rush upstairs to check in for our flight that was leaving at 7.30am. we were a bit concerned because we knew it was a full flight, but we were called to take the last two seats and lucky us they happened to be in business class, so we travelled to Mexico city in style.Halfway through the flight the attendant told us that they had just received a wire to let us know that our bags had been found and they would arrive on the flight leaving from Toronto,which left half an hour after our flight.We went to the baggage after landing,and waited and waited.......guess what?.....no bags !Suffice to say ,we were really pissed off by this time and thought to hell with it, they would have to deliver them to our door if they ever did find them. But not to be outdone we again enquired with the little baggage lady who did a computer check and found that our bags had gone on ahead of us and would be waiting in Guadalajara..........which they were!....Halleluljah.Moving right along, we moved into our new digs which we love, on Sunday morning we met up with our friends Barbara and Wally along with the four ladies from our brunch club in Halifax,who are here for a month and we all had brunch at our favourite hotel,and tonight we are all dining out at a popular restaurant called Pedros owned by a guy from Toronto. Life is good. Posted by Jack.