"I am not afraid of Tomorrow, for I have seen Yesterday, and I Love Today."
The day before our flight, we received enough snow to make the roads very messy. Because of this our daughter was scared to drive us to the airport ( I couldn't blame her as she hates driving in snow) Therefore Dennis, a very good friend said that he would take us. Well, the drive to Charlottetown turned out to be a bad one, and the choice to change drivers was a good one. Our flight was at 06:10pm and we had to be at the airport at 5pm so we stopped and had supper on the way.
We arrived at the airport with lots of time to spare. We checked in, they put me in a wheelchair. ( I guess because I was on oxygen, I didn't ask why.} What a rigmarole going through security, geesh. Even my oxygen tanks were put through, I had to get out of the chair walk through without my oxygen. The best part of all was while going through my purse they found my manicure set and took out the little scissors and tossed them in the garbage, I was mortified. Especially, because I knew I had traveled with this case many times and never lost anything out of it before. However, while sitting and waiting, it dawned on me, the other times I'd traveled with the manicure case it was packed in my suitcase and not in my purse!! Whoops, my mistake. But it was enough for my husband to tease me for the rest of the flight and call me "the terrorist" who was going to try to take the whole plane down with a little pair of manicure scissors.
Next I want to talk about a company called Hope Air. Hope Air is a non profit Canadian company made up of a bunch of doctors and business people who get together and donate all their air miles for people who need to fly to other Provinces for medical treatment. Treatment which they can't receive in their home province.Thanks to Hope Air my husband and myself flew to Toronto and back free of charge. They were also very polite, easy to deal with, and went out of there way to explain how everything was going to work for us. God Bless Them! they made this trip so easy for us. www.hopeair.org/pages/about_us/about_us_history.htm
When it came time to board the plane, a female airport attendant came and started pushing me outside to the plane. I knew what the regular staircase leading up to the plane looked like but this was the first time I see anything like this. First there was a tiny ramp and then a landing which she had to turn my chair, then she had to push me up a long steep ramp up to another landing, turn the chair again and then push me up another long and even steeper ramp. I felt so sorry for that poor woman.
West Jet is the only airline who allows people to carry oxygen on board. They saved me a lot of trouble of trying to find an oxygen company in Toronto and have them meet me at the airport with tanks for the week and then the trouble of exchanging the tanks when I was flying back home. All West Jet asked was that I change my tanks here on the island for larger tanks so they could be hooked onto the floor of the plane. Which I did but unfortunately, the airport neglected to tell the plane that an oxygen patient was coming on board. So here was the poor stewardess on her hands and knees trying to hook up my oxygen, and they sent the rest of the passengers out about a minute behind me. Well they all came barreling on walking on the stewardess or trying to climb over top of her. What a chaos, I was thinking at the time that communication would have been so much easier.
The flight itself was very smooth and uneventful until we started to descend into Toronto. I had never flown into Toronto at night. All the lights were beautiful especially the CN Tower lit up. I was so excited, it was just gorgeous!
You have to agree with me, right?. Absolutely beautiful!
Taxiing to the West Jet terminal.
After the other passengers disembarked they unhooked my oxygen and put me in another wheel chair and wheeled me down a chute. Once we reached the terminal they stopped pushing in front of a golf cart, to my surprise they loaded both myself and my husband onto the golf cart and we headed for baggage. I was so embarrassed! However, we drove and drove and drove for at least 5 minutes before we reached baggage. Believe me when I say I was some relieved to have had the golf cart, otherwise I would never have made.
We grabbed our luggage and hailed a cab, to take us into the city. I was sitting in the cab, twisting my neck to see out all the cab windows at the same time trying to see all the sites haha. As I looked over at my husband he had the biggest smile on his face and just as excited as me. What a pair we were. When we arrived at our hotel, cab fare cost us $54.80 not bad as we had researched on Google before leaving home and had it estimated the cost of the taxi at around $70.00 dollars from the airport to downtown. So, it's been a great start to our week!
Next I want to talk about a company called Hope Air. Hope Air is a non profit Canadian company made up of a bunch of doctors and business people who get together and donate all their air miles for people who need to fly to other Provinces for medical treatment. Treatment which they can't receive in their home province.Thanks to Hope Air my husband and myself flew to Toronto and back free of charge. They were also very polite, easy to deal with, and went out of there way to explain how everything was going to work for us. God Bless Them! they made this trip so easy for us. www.hopeair.org/pages/about_us/about_us_history.htm
West Jet is the only airline who allows people to carry oxygen on board. They saved me a lot of trouble of trying to find an oxygen company in Toronto and have them meet me at the airport with tanks for the week and then the trouble of exchanging the tanks when I was flying back home. All West Jet asked was that I change my tanks here on the island for larger tanks so they could be hooked onto the floor of the plane. Which I did but unfortunately, the airport neglected to tell the plane that an oxygen patient was coming on board. So here was the poor stewardess on her hands and knees trying to hook up my oxygen, and they sent the rest of the passengers out about a minute behind me. Well they all came barreling on walking on the stewardess or trying to climb over top of her. What a chaos, I was thinking at the time that communication would have been so much easier.
The flight itself was very smooth and uneventful until we started to descend into Toronto. I had never flown into Toronto at night. All the lights were beautiful especially the CN Tower lit up. I was so excited, it was just gorgeous!
We grabbed our luggage and hailed a cab, to take us into the city. I was sitting in the cab, twisting my neck to see out all the cab windows at the same time trying to see all the sites haha. As I looked over at my husband he had the biggest smile on his face and just as excited as me. What a pair we were. When we arrived at our hotel, cab fare cost us $54.80 not bad as we had researched on Google before leaving home and had it estimated the cost of the taxi at around $70.00 dollars from the airport to downtown. So, it's been a great start to our week!
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