I flew from Vancouver to Saint John on April 2nd, leaving at 1:35pm - flight was on time to my connection in Toronto, flight was on time leaving Toronto - things were off to a good start - BUT - then just as we were boarding our SJ flight in TO, they announced there was heavy fog in SJ and they were sending us to Fredericton! WHAT??!! Nooooooooooooo! I need to be in SJ to run the pageant for 11am! In panic I look up bus schedules, flights - nothing was any good. So I figured just relax and have a nap, and see what happens. If all else fails there is always hitch hiking right?? :)
I had a fantastic flight from Vancouver to Toronto, nice upgraded premium seating makes these longer flights so much more enjoyable. Air Canada also has great tv and free movies, and I ended up with an amazing seat mate who turns out to be an amazing (almost famous!) choreographer from Vancouver, who was heading to TO to choreograph a big show for 10 days! I didn't even watch a movie, we chatted for probably 3 out of 4 hours! He was fabulous!
Had a great bulkhead row to myself on my next flight- always makes for a good flight :)
They announced about 3/4 into our flight that we would be landing in SJ and not Fredericton - HUGE sigh of relief! I fell asleep for the last bit of the flight knowing I didn't have to worry!
Arrived in SJ around 1:15am and the hotel had sent a cab for me! I went outside and there was no one with a sign - just a guy yelling "Liz McKinnon - are you here?" LOL! He was great and super talkative on the 15 min trip to the hotel.
We held the pageant at the Amsterdam Inn Quispamsis - I actually asked the cabbie how to say that and it is 'Quis-pam-sis' - just as spelled out - go figure LOL.
Checked in and what a cute little hotel this was! Such friendly staff at 2am - not sure I could be that friendly at 2am! lol.
When I got into my room I found a lovely surprise gift! That was fun!
I went to bed but couldn't sleep - it was only 10pm to me - so I laid awake until about 5:30am - and then got up at 8:30 to get everything ready.
Hotel had a great breakfast- had a waffle. I was so lucky that I had Helen on the other end who went in the day before and set everything up! That sure helped! Thank you Helen and Rebecca!
I don't normally take food photos -but this is meg's fave and I sent it to her to make her jealous! lol
I only had a few things to do, and then on a whim, a few of the moms, the judges and I decided to switch the room around a different way so we had a blank wall in the background! With only 19 girls, we were on a lower budget, so bringing in a professional big backdrop couldn't happen - but we flipped it around and used the crown table as a backdrop! All worked out!
Was so much fun to see all my NB girls again - another year older, getting so grown up! Also met some amazing new girls!
Pageant ran on time - thanks Kelda for bringing me lunch!
We have a new set of NB Royalty!
Baby miss Bonnie Rain
Toddler miss December
Tiny miss Aliyah
Petite miss Alexis...
little miss Autumn
Young miss Rea
Tween miss Rebecca
Ms. Arkene
Junior Ambassador Sophie
Ambassador Kathryn
Sorry for the bad photos- waiting on better ones!
After the pageant, around 3pm, I conked out until about 6:30pm and ordered some dinner, then tried to sleep again - I slept from about 11pm-12:30am and then was up all night- no way was I sleeping! So I sat on the phone with friends all night and then had a shower around 3am and off to the airport at 4am!
This was yummy! Again, one of meg's faves so I took a photo to make her jealous! lol
Had a nice warm taxi waiting for me- brrrrrrrrrrrrrr it was cold and I had no jacket with me! lol. Walking across the runway to the airplane at 4:45am in the -10 weather with a strong wind - no coat- not fun!
Flight from SJ to Toronto was cramped and full - not as much fun as the flight in. Thank goodness I had that same great seat in premium for the long flight to Vancouver :)
Hit Toronto and it was snowing quite hard!!
I was excited to see this plane in person there - as I am a massive Disney fan!
Flight was delayed just over an hour AFTER we boarded - but I fell asleep fast! I watched Daddy's Home (cute movie) and slept some more, finally getting into YVR, grab my car at the valet and barely remember the drive home!
I texted Meg I was starving and when I got home - she had pizza and chocolate chip cookies waiting for me!!! What a great girl! I then fell asleep for about 4 hours! hahaha.
Off to my next adventure in Sydney NS in 2 weeks!!! :)
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