O Canada

Vancouver 2009, originally uploaded by me.

Vancouver 2009, originally uploaded by me.

I arrived in Vancouver the day before yesterday. I took a flight from Hamburg at around noon and had to change at London Heathrow. The plane to Canada was supposed to take off at 5. Everything went flawlessy. The plane headed to the runway and accelerated - before it came to a complete stop and the take-off was aborted. The plane returned to the gate. For a while nobody knew what was going on until the captain announced that the generator was broken. Cars came and engineers were running around. All in all it took about one hour until another announcement was made which said that we had to leave the aircraft to change planes. Back in the terminal building everyone had to wait for another two and a half hours until the plane was ready to be boarded. I had a massive headache and felt sick which is why I didn't eat anything during the whole flight. I slept quite a bit even though it was never longer than ten minutes or so. The flight was about nine and a half hours from London. At the airport, where I was asked quite a few personal questions, I had to learn that the Canadian custom procedures are even stricter than in the States. At around eleven in the evening I was glad when I finally arrived at the hotel in Richmond and I could sleep. I woke up again at five but felt completely rested and got up.
I spent the whole day in Vancouver and did some sightseeing in the city and the mountains. I took a lot of pictures. I uploaded a few of them to my Flickr account.
Tonight will be the first show on the tour. I'm very, very excited :=).