Monday, 19 June 2023

Our First Post COVID trip to the U.S.

 

Words could not describe our excitement this morning!

After almost 4 years being cooped up in Canada, we are finally able to travel outside of the country!

Our first post Covid restrictions free trip is to spend time with our grown son in the US. In Fact, this will be our very first cruise trip with our first born.

This cruise trip happened within a few weeks. Initially, we planned to fly to SF spending some time hiking and camping at the Yosemite National Park. However, our son convinced us that this might not be the best idea for a relaxing holiday to which we suggested a cruise holiday instead. E. agreed and he even suggested a certain cruise line and a definite date when he would be able to join us.

After some research and back and forth discussion, here we are flying down to Miami to board our cruise ship this Sunday!

Stan started not feeling too well last Thursday when we were in Collingwood for a retreat conference. He was coughing pretty badly over the weekend. We were a bit worried that this might affect our trip. But thank God, by the time we were to board the plane, he has recovered!  We cleaned our house and got everything ready to fly.

This was our first plane trip since Feb, 2020, just before Canada shut down in March, 2022 due to COVID. We allowed ourselves plenty of time leaving our house at 3pm via a transportation company.  The airport was quite busy as there were many travellers. We boarded an Air Canada plane heading to Miami which took off at 7:55P.M. from Toronto Pearson International Airport.

We haven’t flown on any Air Canada jets for a little while. I noticed that the flight attendants were quite a bit younger. All the attendants working on our flight are under thirty years old. Of the crew of four, two were male and two were female. As far as I remember, Air Canada flight attendants were mostly women, in their middle 40’s. It was different this time. Also include in this crew, I am pretty sure there was a member of the LGBTQ.

We will be flying a lot in the next two months. It will be interesting to see if the demographics of the flight attendants of American airlines will be the same, or as tolerant and diverse as our Canadian crew members.

RT, Toronto

On board an Air Canada flight to Miami


 

 

 

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