Getting There

Dewey & I left Calgary on Tuesday, Jan 30th at the very do-able time of 12:50pm. We didn't know what to do because we're used to flight times at the butt crack of dawn! It was downright civilized to get up at a normal time, get our stuff together & head for the airport. The first leg of our journey would take us to the JFK airport in New York to stay overnight before heading to Turks & Caicos the next morning. As much as I wanted to head to the airport wearing flip flops and a t-shirt a reality check on weather.com told me that I should bring my coat and wear winter clothes. We stayed overnight at the Courtyard Marriott at JFK. Pretty overpriced hotel but all the others in the area got comments like "I give it one star b/c this review board won't let me give it any less than that". The hotel was a-okay & they had a shuttle to zip us back and forth from the airport. Though we were sooooo close to New York, we decided to play it safe & stay at the hotel for dinner since we had to get up really early the next morning.

We were downstairs at 5am to catch the shuttle to the airport. We could have waited a while b/c security & check-in were a breezes. Better safe than sorry though! We got on the plane & everything looked like it was a go UNTIL.....the pilot heard a weird noise from the engines. We sat on the tarmac for around an hour seeing if letting the engines "warm up" would help. No such luck....back to the gate we went. Thankfully, maintenance was there in a flash & they let the pilot know that the noise we heard was perfectly normmal for this type of "new" plane. So off we went (thank goodness) heading to the Caribbean. A little late but much better than never!