‘They Lied to Me Through Song… I Hate When They Do That’ – Homer Simpson

There’s this song that I don’t really know, and it’s playing around in my head… just one line really…

“I’ll be home… for Christmas…”

I’ll be home for Christmas. I’ll be in Vancouver for Christmas.

I didn’t get snowed in. It didn’t even snow. It seems my habit of speaking to the heavens still pays off, I did my part anyhow - no snow at all today. But, alas, around this great cold nation of Canada, it has been snowing and delaying and cancelling flights and combined with the effect of catching up from Sunday’s nutso delayed and cancelled flights in Vancouver, all equalled a delayed flight to LA.

Not usually a problem for normal boring plebs, but of course, I can never do anything the normal way, no, I have to fly all the way to Perth, the middle of nowhere, and so my delayed flight just wouldn’t cut it. I wouldn’t connect. I knew it, the lady at the desk knew it, and all the people waiting in the line knew it. So I had to reschedule or wait for 3 days in LAX for an opening on a flight. 3 days here VS. 3 days there…. here there is a shower and that is good.

New rescheduled flight, due to bad weather, has me leaving Vancouver on the 26th and getting into Perth on the 28th. Not quite Christmas, but certainly earlier than the end of March which it was looking like before. It’s okay, I can deal with that. I leave Perth on the 30th for Adelaide, so I’m really going for EXTREME JETLAGGING*, but that’ll be fun too. My beautiful unmet newphew is also flying to Adelaide on the 29th, giving me very little time to squeeze the cuteness out of him (cos we all know how long that will take, he’s extremely cute).

I am disappointed that I won’t be in Perth as soon as I’d thought, hope deferred makes the heart sick. Let’s hope it’s not deferred for too long. But still, I can’t ever live in sadness for too long, because it’s a waste of opportunity and this is a good time to tick off my experience card:

þ White Christmas

þ delayed so long I missed a flight

þ Spent Christmas with a family that I hardly know

All good things to have done in my life. It’s getting longer, that card.

So, looks like just a few more blogs are to come. I’ve got to go unpack now and sort out all the stuff I gave away that I’ll still need (my snow boots!!… but it’s okay, Luke still has them). Hope y’all don’t miss me too much – I’ll get home. One day. Maybe for Christmas next year…

kezza.

* it’s a new sport I invented for all those who love travel.