My exciting trip to Canada

Garry will be making his flight over on Tuesday, but I came last Tuesday (the 27th) to Manitoba. It was an epic journey this time. Starting about Friday when I came down with the cold Garry had gotten in Spain. Fever, dizzy, coughing... I tried to recover in time to fly comfortably.

 I spent Saturday in bed and packing and Sunday I was feeling better and went into church in Dnepro with Garry, Scott, Shannon and the girls- Vika, Valentina, Leila and Julia. We grabbed a quick lunch at Puzata Hata, went to Lena's English school, where Garry talked about our trip to Spain and told Bible stories. We got home about 4 pm and I actually did make pizza for dinner, so we could eat it during the Eagles game.

Monday morning I awoke feeling terrible with an earache to add to my symptoms, and I was taking the evening train (5 pm) to Kiev with my suitcases to catch my 7 am flight Tuesday. Garry dropped me at the train station, I bought some water to help my sore throat, napped a little and got a hat halfway finished by the time the train got to Kiev at 11 pm. I just stuffed my little crocheting backpack of yarn and hooks into my purse instead of zipping it in the carry-on roller bag.

Which I regretted after  walking up a couple flights of stairs with my purse over my shoulder, carry-on in that hand and  big suitcase in the other, and finding my bag open, and my crochet bag gone. I walked all the way back to the train to check for it, then all the way back up without finding it.

After trying to find a policeman, I gave up and went across the road to KFC, where the door was still open but they wouldn't sell me anything. This was just as I realized my wallet was missing from my purse. Back to the train station, where I did find a policeman (even one who spoke English)  and walked back and  forth and finally to the police station, where I waited a while to file a report. The police actually escorted me back to the bus to the airport and carried my big suitcase up and down the long flights of stairs.

Luckily I keep enough grivna to take the bus in a different pocket of my bag, and my passport and resident cards in an inside pockets they didn't get into so I was off to the airport around three am. I was the first one on the bus so it waited half an hour for more people to come before taking off for the airport.

I used the toilets after going through the entry x-ray check and soon I could check in for my flight. I had taken inventory and had some US dollars in my bag, and about 2.50 in Canadian coins. It was airplane food all day until I spent my toonie in Toronto for a buddy burger.


My morning flight gave me a slice of pound cake and the big meal cross ocean I picked pasta which was not the hoped for ravioli but mac and cheese, and the pre-landing snack was a half sandwich with a tiny pudding, so I was hungry.

I was surprised to have time to get anything since we took off more than an hour late from Vienna as the snow was coming down and we had to de-ice. Landed only ten minutes late, but with taxiing and customs and rechecking my bag, and going through security I got to my gate only about ten minutes before they started loading. However there was an A&W around the corner, so I enjoyed my burger.

I got another burger meal on the way home after Micah, Crystal and Andromeda met me at the airport. So far I have replaced my bank card, and I need to get a replacement drivers licence and credit card. I had phoned one of our sons to cancel the visa while waiting at the police station.


Still feeling my cold today, the lady seated next to me on the plane did not look happy to be seated next to a coughing, sneezing, nose blowing person for eight hours.

Meanwhile Garry back in Ukraine did Thursday cooking class with the students today, they made pizza.