Winter Worktrip #3 to Freezing Canada – Yet Again!
[Photos taken on 03-08 March, posted on 02 October 2018. Back in Iceland after a long weekend in Edinburgh with my sewing club.]
The third and last of my Canada work-trips this winter began on our wedding anniversary. Very romantic… not!
This time I flew through Vancouver both ways, only stopping for a few hours on the way there, but spending almost 24 hours on the way back. Here are photos from the trip there, and my stay in Spruce Grove, which was mostly comprised of work, eating, and a few walks. (36 images total)
Saturday 03 March 2018
Pre-departure stuck-in-traffic car-selfie. I took the kids on a super-quick library run, before my airport-taxi pickup at 2 pm.
The view out of the back of the taxi on the way to the airport.
At the airport. I managed to not forget my wallet this time.
Our Vancouver-bound airplane, was named Grímsvötn.
Leaving Iceland.
Flying over Greenland. The mountains always feel so weirdly close.
Flying over the last mountain range before arriving at Vancouver.
Vancouver from the air.
It is strangely difficult to take photos with level horizons from airplane windows.
Obligatory selfie in front of some of the many totem poles in and around the airport.
We had a very early morning flight out the following morning, so we stayed at an airport hotel. It was perfectly fine.
Pretty standard issue stuff.
Good to know!
The hotel was by a busy road, and a residential area, so we we had no option but to eat at the hotel restaurant. Thankfully, it wasn’t awful.
Sunday 04 March 2018
The hotel carpet at 04:37 in the morning. Happily that was late in the morning, Iceland time.
Totally awake!
Waiting in the lobby for the rest of my group to arrive.
Back at the airport, and looking at more totem poles.
Breakfast was at such an exotic place! Not.
Love my noise-cancelling headphones.
Our plane drove past the parked Icelandair plane we’d arrived in the day before!
Takeoff.
Goodbye Vancouver!
Hello Edmonton!
Still alive. Always a bonus!
We made it to our regular hotel in Spruce Grove, and this was my room.
Meanwhile in Iceland, my peeps were at a confirmation party.
Two pouters!
Cakes!
Wednesday 07 March 2018
Found a fun piece of art next door to our hotel on an evening walk. It’s now an Ingress portal!
That evening, for some reason, there was a snowplow clearing an athletic field of some sort?!?!
Thursday 08 March 2018
On our way to lunch I realized our rental car had a sunroof! Oh, and we were in Canada apparently.
That evening, the snowplow was back clearing the american football field…!?!
I found a surprisingly densely populated playground.
Hero-shot!
My walk took me past a few residential houses. Some had their shoes out even though it was super freezing, so I logically assumed the inhabitants were Chinese.
