Isolation

 It's day five the arrive Canada app tells me. On Sunday Victor drove us to Kyiv, making great time, only five and a half hours. 

We saw a bit of snow halfway to Kyiv, but it didn't last long. We also saw a car pulling a trailer with three or four pigs in, and few other interesting sights. It seemed like Victor's vehicle had problems with a coolant hose leak, he went to check it out at a garage after we checked in. We bought dinner in boxes from the grocery store counter, heated them up in the microwave and ate at the hotel, because the restaurants were all closed for the weekend Covid lock down. Victor took us to the airport at four am, before heading home to Dnepro. 

We flew out of Kyiv at six am on Monday morning, and were happy not to have to pay extra for our checked bags as we'd thought we would.   We had a three hour flight to Amsterdam, and four hours after landing there, we boarded the flight to Calgary.  We survived wearing masks for nearly 24 hours, and on the flight to Calgary we had four seats each. Unfortunately it was a plane where the armrests only raise up a couple inches, so no stretching out to sleep.  That flight was more than nine and a half hours, and then we had to unload slowly for Covid distancing. Just as we were almost off the plane Garry realized he didn't have his wallet and returned to his seat to check for it. He came back smiling waving it.

We didn't have tickets for our final flight into Winnipeg, but after going through customs, we were excited to get ticketed for the flight that was leaving soon. Our third lucky break for the trip! It was a smaller plane, which was why the cancelled flight on our itinerary, the flight number had changed, but we landed at 6:45 in Winnipeg. The luggage did not make the flight, but they brought it out on Tuesday afternoon. We were asleep long before we would have landed after midnight on the next flight. The kids had dropped the car and keys for us at the airport earlier in the day, and had the hexaplex apartment stocked and ready for us.

Garry is finding isolation boring, even though I have made him lots of tasty meals, and have cut back on crocheting to play Sequence with him so if you see him online give him a video chat, or email me for the new house number, as the boys moved to phone here for our quarantine.