Basking in the Sun!

One thing I hate about flying is the time it takes to get off a plane once it has landed. It’s for this reason that I don’t mind paying the additional $10 charge to pre-select a seat near the front and on the aisle. After a 48-minute flight from Ottawa to Toronto, a 3 hour wait for the flight to Dominican Republic that took 4 hours and then a one hour drive to the hotel in Santiago, I finally arrived for my two-week vacation.

On the flight to DR, there was a guy in the seat behind who didn’t shut up the entire time. What made it worse was him going on like he was an expert on the DR as he explained to the poor soul sitting next to him what to expect while vacationing here. A few times I found myself thinking “what utter crap!”

Today, I was supposed to phone my contact with Children International to find out what time they would be picking me up tomorrow for my first visit with one of my sponsored kids. Little did I know that it was a national holiday and I was unable to reach her. After a phone call to their headquarters in the States, I was able to contact the Regional Director at home here who told me that everything would be taken care of and they would call me first thing in the morning.

It’s very hot and humid here but I’m not complaining since we actually had snow in Ottawa last week!

that’s the way I see it

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