If you go on a journey...

... something MUST go wrong otherwise it would not be fun eh?
Well the good points first - I am in Vancouver, it is fantastic here and now the fact why I am still awake after 24 hours - I am waiting for my bag.
Sure, I got this Overnight Kit from Air Canada BUT I will not find any solution for contact lenses in there ... and putting them in chlorined water - no thank you.
I always used to bring a bottle in my backpack but because some shithole thought it was a fantastic idea to forbid all fluids and nowadays they even check small stuff I just don't do that anymore. In addition I want my hiking boots for the field trip tomorrow ... we are going to a mine and sandals are not really fantastic.
So I am waiting for my bag which I still had in Calgary and it takes them about 6 hours to get the bag on the next flight and bring it to me, although I was told at 7 p.m. at the airport that the flight the bag is on will arrive at 9.
So whoever wonders why I didn't fly with my bag ... that is very simple - the whole day I had flight of immense delays. If you think 2 hours of stay at the airport is enough - don't count on that, might get really tight.
It all started with a sick passenger (why did the intelligent person board the airplane anyway?)who needed medical treatment when the machine was about to take-off in London, so they had to go back to the gate and couldn't start in time for Oslo, where I was waiting for the flight. When they finally were in Oslo, they were not allowed to start because of heavy traffic and then they were not allowed to land in London because of ... guess .. .heavy traffic. Fortunately, I was not the only one who wanted to catch the flight to Calgary (and the transatlantic flight was the most important one because I had a field trip the next day and I didn't want to miss it). Luckily it was the same terminal in London, but it was a lot of walking and going through security again and walking and walking. We made it finally 10 minutes before the flight was supposed to start - the airplane was fully ready when we arrived BUT ...heavy traffic. So we did not arrive in time and I had just one hour in Calgary which was almost used up with the delay - not talking about having to go through customs, waiting for my bag to arrive and checking it in again and then finding the gate. So they put me on a waiting list for all flights going to Vancouver. I almost gave up on the next one because they said it was full and then they put me on in the very last minute. I was already in the plane when they informed me, that my bag could not be put into the plain but I just had to fill out a claim in Vancouver and it will be on the next flight anyway.
At least people were quite friendly .. but please I want my bag !!!