Alyssa is finally here

Alyssa is spending Christmas with us here in Labrador City.  We've had her flights booked since we booked our flights to get here and she was flying Brisbane - LA - Dallas - Montreal - Quebec - Sept Iles - Wabush.  The day before she was scheduled to leave Qantas called her to say that the Brisbane - LA flight was delayed by eight hours, this meant she would arrive a day later.  She was told that her flights would connect through to Montreal but she would need to contact her travel agent to arrange the Montreal - Wabush flights.  Steve called American Express who made our booking and they reviewed the scheduled flights and advised that we change the itinerary to fly Brisbane - LA - New York - Montreal - Quebec - Sept Iles - Wabush.  Well this sounded very glamorous indeed and meant less time in airports for Alyssa so we made the booking.

Alyssa departed Brisbane for LA on Sunday instead of Saturday as originally planned however the LA - New York flight was cancelled due to bad weather so she flew LA - Miami - Montreal.  She had a very tight connection in Miami and arrived in Montreal after midnight.  We had changed her hotel booking so that she was staying at the hotel right at the Montreal airport so she could grab her bags and go straight to bed.  Unfortunately her bags were missing so she took her complimentary Qantas PJ's as her only change of clothes.

Now we had the largest snowfall we have seen since being here on Sunday night.  We woke up early and called Alyssa to make sure she was awake and heading back to the domestic terminal to check in nice and early.  Steve scraped the snow off his car, dug the snow from around it and headed off to work.  About 30 minutes later Alyssa called to say that her flight was cancelled due to poor weather!  She could fly to Sept Iles but had no connection to Wabush!  We rebooked her into the airport hotel and told her to sit tight.  We made so many phone calls back and forwards on Monday, maybe she should catch the flight to Sept Iles, maybe she should try Provincial Airlines instead of Air Canada, maybe she should wait in Montreal.  At about 10am the Wabush airport was closed so we decided that Alyssa should remain in Montreal until we could get her a seat all the way to Wabush.

Tuesday's flights were fully booked so the best we could get was to book her on the 6am flight to Wabush on Wednesday morning.  On Monday night Steve's boss, Brian, kindly took Alyssa shopping to buy her a change of clothes.  She waited it out on Wednesday in the hotel.  On Wednesday morning Alyssa checked in for the Air Canada flight to Wabush.  At 830am I got a call at home, Alyssa sounded disappointed, her flight had been cancelled again.  We couldn't believe it!

Fortunately the travel agent had made her a backup booking on Provincial Air Lines for Wednesday afternoon.  The PAL flight departed late at 2:50pm, made a brief stop in Sept Iles then landed at Wabush airport at 7:30pm.  Alyssa said it was the bumpiest landing she had ever had.

Alyssa and Taylor had a very long hug, a few tears, happy to see each other finally.

Happy together!