Sunday 13th June 2010…..First England post…

Going back to Friday Karen drove Sara and I down to the terminal for the float plane trip to Vancouver airport..

The Pilot is young but he looks like he knows what he is doing….Sara had a day at the hairdressers and her hair for a couple of days is straight!!!

The flight is only about 20 minutes then they take you in a shuttle to the departure area of the airport.  Check in was a breeze and then we had a couple of hours to wait so we found some nice comfortable arm chairs in the lobby of the airport hotel and played a game of quick scrabble….you can tell my this photo who was the winner and who was the sore loser, fancy not getting my face in!!!!!

This is the plane that was to be our travelling partner for the next 9 hours.

I like to sit in the exit rows because of the extra leg room but those seats were unavailable so we sat in the regular seats and the plane was completely full, Sara had the aisle and I had the middle seat.

I have never been on a plane where the actual seats were so narrow and the leg room non existent.  There was just no room at all and it seems that many other passengers were complaining and this was further compounded when they announced that due to technical problems the in flight entertainment was not working.  I have never seen so many people standing in the aisles…

I spent a few hours at the rear of the plane reading giving Sara an extra seat so she could get some sleep.

The seating was so bad that when they made the final announcement thanking us for flying with them they did apologize for the poor seating arrangements and urged us to let the corporate offices know.

Anyway we arrived on time in Manchester at 11.30am Saturday morning and Janet and Malc were there waiting for us and the drive home was made more pleasant by the sandwiches and snacks Janet brought.

We had a cup of tea, how English…..it is so nice to be here especially with Sara meeting my family

This is the view from our bedroom window!!!!

after a small nap it was time for a good English supper of fish and chips followed by the live soccer game from the World cup taken place in South Africa, we saw England play the USA.

For missing one nights sleep we were doing not too bad but about 9pm we both just hit the wall and went to bed.

Slept OK till 8am which was good to get us on local time…we started this morning with a walk around the park at the back of the house.

The trails are very pretty..

As we were walking back saw this cat on a roof…

This is my brother’s home…

so now we are having a lazy morning and this afternoon Janet is cooking a turkey and all my family are coming over for dinner so we are looking forward to that……..