When 'free' isn't free

When Air Canada get involved. Lovely as they are at Aeroplan (and they were both professional and friendly), it simply doesn't constitute an amazing deal. Once you've factored in the taxes, airport 'improvement' fees, security charges, etc and paid the booking fee (because the only route available to you at the lowest amount of airmiles can't be booked online because it takes you 500 miles in the wrong direction first), it seems the tickets still cost you about 30% of what they would have had you not had airmiles.

Notwithstanding the hidden costs of a free flight, Ange's dad's kindness in donating aeroplan points means that we'll be able to come back to western Canada this summer from mid to late July. Hooray!

Thankfully, we're not flying through (the now infamous) T5 at Heathrow. The scale of incompetence displayed by British Airways defies comprehension is such a competitive industry (in case you've not heard about it, here's the skinny). For all those not involved on any level, the statistic of 19,000 lost bags at one point is truly comical.

And finally
Also, there's nothing to report as of 7:27pm, Tuesday 15 April there is no indication of the onset of labour. For all those who believe that food has a direct effect on the onset of labour, Ange had cottage pie and ridiculous amounts of chocolate 30 minutes ago. For a little interactive blog fun, we'll take guesses on date (with the hour) and gender! Simply post a comment with your guess. Winner gets Galaxy chocolate, as usual.