Today turned out to be a quiet day. I took Nolan to the park this morning and we played in the courtyard until Sarah made her way down to get us. A friend Sarah had met at the gym who is from Cuba was coming over to cook a Cuban lunch for us. We walked over to the store to pick up a few last items we needed. Daphne arrived with her 5 year old son Theo who was a sweetheart and he played with Nolan and Sarah and Daphne cooked the most amazing Cuban lunch..mmmmmmm. ...

I slept over 10 hours and I think I have successfully avoided jet lag. Breakfast with the little man Nolan and then we got ready and headed out to the park. We had a great time playing on the park. Nolan has decided I am not that bad to have around and we had a lot of fun. We found a sign in the park for what we thought was a flea market or bazaar type thing for later in the day so we figured we would go find it later. We went to a huge department store much like...

I landed in Leipzig at around 130pm, found my luggage and entered into the airport. My plan was to get cash in the Frankfurt airport, however, I ran so fast through it to catch my flight I didn't have time. No big deal, there will be a bank machine in the airport in Leipzig....right....sure....there is....but my card didn't work!! I tried to ask people in the airport if there was another bank machine as I thought I could only pay cash for the train. There were no...

After just getting home from work yesterday I had a very early morning flight booked out of Yellowknife, taking advantage of my full two weeks off to travel. I have friends who are living in Leipzig, Germany for a few months so I am off to visit them as well as visit Berlin and Prague. My flight left Yellowknife at 0555hrs! I was suppose to fly direct to Calgary then direct to Frankfurt , however with the Lufthansa strike I ended up with a milk run. Yellowknife, ...

Our flight was to depart from Lima at 2am, however due to being lucky passengers of Air Canada Rouges first flight from from Lima to Toronto. We were delayed due to handing out of cupcakes and pictures of flight crew and ribbon cutting. Needless to say we were not impressed with this hoopla at 2am and all we wanted was to get on the plane and sleep! We eventually boarded and took off. I was able to get some sleep on the plane, flight was pretty uneventful. Cust...