Well, the tickets arrived in the mail and, of course, there’s a change in plans *s*. Quite a few of the flight times changed within 1 hour of what I posted but that’s not too big of a deal. I’ll edit the last post to show the changes and the flight numbers.

However, instead of leaving Vancouver Airport at close to 5 p.m., we now leave at 1:16 p.m. This means that catching the 10:15 ferry won’t work – so now we’re looking at various options. As you all know, John prefers to be early for everything *s*, so he’s not liking the timing of the 7:45 ferry as it means we would get to the airport at about 2 hours before the flight (which is the check in time). Other options we’re exploring are:

• going to Vancouver on Friday night and staying at a hotel close to the airport (with a shuttle bus to the airport)
• getting up really early and catching the 5:15 ferry from Duke Point – then taking the bus to the airport
• catching the 7:45 ferry from Duke Point – then catching a taxi to the airport (taxi will cost about $55 – so far this is the one I like – I don’t have to get up too! early and it’s the second cheapest solution – the cheapest being getting up too early in the morning *lol*)
• flying Harbour Air from Nanaimo Harbour to Vancouver Airport

We’ve already discarded the idea of someone driving us all the way to the airport and then coming back on the return ferry. Hardly seems like a fun thing to do (although John and I have done that before when Justin left after the second visit).

The other really fun thing that the change in schedule brings is a 6 hour stopover in Los Angeles Airport – oh joy! Sure glad John isn’t smoking right now or he’d be going crazy in the airport for that long. Too bad I won’t be able to have any knitting to keep me occupied – guess I’ll spend a lot of time “people watching” and pacing *g*.