On our Way!

Receiving final instructions before we load up and leave Westpark

Today is the Big Day! No more count-downs! This is our first day of our ten-day Impact Mission trip. At 7:00 am most of our Mexico team loaded in 4 vans and a truck and left the school to meet with the rest of the group at the Winnipeg International Airport. The group was excited, though bleary-eyed due to the lack of sleep we had the previous night. Checking in with Westjet was slow, but steady, and security was fast, though one of our group members was stopped for having scissors in the carry-on. First person to guess the guilty party gets a point! (Only one guess per reader!)

In the Airport, waiting to be checked in.

After buying breakfast (most of us patronizing Tim Horton’s), we had a short wait and then boarded our plane, occupying 4 full rows of the plane. Most students chatted away happily or watched the on-board videos for the two hour flight. There was some wind in Calgary when we landed, though Nic said the take-off was worse than the landing.

We are now in Calgary Airport, waiting for a couple of hours before we board again, with a possible delay of half an hour.

Our next flight will be longer and over the supper hour. We all have had lunch and have been encouraged to buy our supper in the airport before we get on our next plane.

Overall, travel has been going without a hitch. A Westjet service personnel commented how impressed she was on how well behaved our group was. Way to go Westpark!

We anticipate to land in Puerto Vallarta in the evening with a long drive to Tepic, so we don’t anticipate to update the blog until Tuesday sometime. Until then!