Where did the summer go?

Exeter

My Pizza!! Thanks to Lucy's Recipe!

Hope everyone is having an awesome August! Mine was very nice, and unlike any other August, that's for sure! The last two weeks I had back to Back Flights, but I enjoyed all of them, and no complaints! London was nice, I got to do some shopping, and we had a really fun crew! We went out for some really expensive Thai food, which ended up being not big at all, and we all left hungry! So we went for some cheap thai a few hours later out of a box, and it was beautiful! We went to a few bars and had some drinks, and went to bed around midnight! Our wake up was nice, not till 11 or so, so we all got up and had an english breakfast together.. all you can eat for 5pounds.. mmmmm! The next day after I got home I flew to Dublin, I didn't get to experience much, just the airport for a few hours, but had time to get some postcards and some guiness chocolate and a key chain!! Then we took off to Exeter, England. We flew as Passengers on a european airline, and got some sleep! One little girl came back and tapped me on the shoulder and asked me where the bathroom was, she was probably thinking, why is our flight attendants sleeping on the plane!! Exeter was really beautiful, cute little old lady town! We went shopping for an hour or so, then went and had some Cream Tea's infront of our hotel, it was so yummy! We headed home early the next morning to Toronto. That was the night that we had the crazy lightning storm, so amazing. We sat on the deck, made a chocolate cake, and watched the storm, it was so insane, like nothing I have ever saw before! oh ya, and I can cook now :P.. Made Homemade Pizza, AND a chocolate cake!! Imagine that!! I had a day off after the storm, then went to Rome the next night with Angie my roomate, so that was really nice, our first time flying together! It was a long haul, we had a 8 hour flight to Venice, then got on another small plane to Rome, and got there around 6pm, walked to the coliseum and then had some italian supper, and we were so tired by the end we ended up getting a taxi back to the hotel, and slept for 14 hours!! Our flight home was long, almost 10 hours! Lots of complainers, but Italians are known for that I guess? The crew meals on the way home are beautiful.. I wish everywhere we flew we got fed like that!! We got home last night, and went right to bed, and today we have just been lazy all day! Rodney and Rebecca come tomorrow for a week, then Andrew comes on Wednesday! Im super excited for some visitors! Erinn was here this week with her Dad's Ball team! We went shopping at the Eaton Center.. (bought my first lululemon pants) woo hoo!! It was fun to be a tour guide in Toronto.. well Kinda!! Someone even asked me for directions at the subway, and I told them!! Felt so important!! Anyways, Life is good, I am in september mode now! My schedule is crazy, I go to Manchester, Tereceira, Portugal.. Lisbon, Porto, Portugal, London, Malaga, Spain!! Can't complain!! Hope all is well, and Irene didn't do too much damage :) xox

When in Rome

Roomies!

Home sweet Home

Where did August go?? Where did the summer go!! Flight attendants have warned me that time goes by fast working this sorta job, but holy cow! My week at home was really awesome! Its so nice to be home and not have any plans. Got to see everyone, and spend lots of time with ma! I now believe it when people say that PEI summer weather is the shits.. I got to experience it all too, rain everyday for a week! Well, except for the tractor pulls, firsr time ever without rain! I came back last week and then went to Rome the next day. Such an amazing city! We arrived around 2PM, I slept for an hour or so, then went out with another girl on my crew to walk around the city. It was so hot there too! We ended up losing each other, which wasnt fun, but we were both safe so it was okay! I went out for supper with two girls, and we experienced the real Italian setting. We sat outside, ate pasta & bread, and listened to a man play his accordion beside us.. aanndd, even had a rat run down the street under our feet! eek! We walked around until about midnight. The only thing I didn't see was the Coliseum, but I am going back next week, so I will get a look at it then! The flying part was a lot different then my normal flights. It was about 10 hours on the way home, so long! But the passengers were awesome, and no complaints, or turbulence! Twas great! I have been off for the past 3 days now, and today as well. I fly to London tomorrow evening. We have just been enjoying the weather really. We found a HUGE pool outside our house, about a 5 minute walk, on the beach. Its so nice, and free, so even better! Sophie's friends came down for a Blink 182 concert, and are spread out all over the house now! We don't have much room, but we managed, and it was fun! Our new apt is coming together! we pick up a few things here and there. We are in an awesome location, so close to everything. and me and the girls went out to eat the other night at this amazing Thai restaurant, and its so close to our house, and cheap! So we are finding new things all the time, but everything is so easy to get to! I have only used my car like once in the two weeks we have been here, just to pick some stuff up at Ikea.. which for those of you that dont know, is the best store on the planet! Anyways, my next two weeks will be busy. London till sunday, then I leave monday to go to Dublin/Exeter/Newcastle, then come home and have  day off, and Erinn is coming, then off to Rome again next weekend!! Then its almost September.. ahh!! enjoy the past two weeks of August y'all!! <3 xoxo

Another Vacation from my Vacation..

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So.. I recently realized, that the life of a Flight attendant, is a constant vacation! Apart from the actual flying time, we are always on vacation.. which is about 80 hours a month.. and about half of the flight you could hardly call it work anyway!! Livin the dream! The last few weeks I spent a lot of time in England! I think I had about 5 flights to London, then my last one to Birmingham! That was a time. A girl in my class, Jessica, and I, had a 48 hour layover there, and it was such a nice change. Usually you get there, force yourself to stay awake, do fun things, go to bed, get up, fly home.. but this time we had another day, so we got to actually go out, sleep in,shop, eat and have fun! I am sore from laughing, it was so nice to fly together!! My schedule for August is looking pretty interesting! I have two flights to Rome, one to Hamburg, Germany, one to Heathrow, and another to Dublin/Exeter! I am actually on PEI for a week now though, which is really exciting, as always! We also just got some exciting news... The parents of Daytona, had 5 more puppies, so we are getting a new puppy in about a month, who will be Daytona's sister! so meant to be, and amazing! Me and Angie did a little road trip to Niagara falls last week.. it was so amazing! Didn't expect it to be like that at all! We had a lot of fun, lots of drinks, and left with some bed bug bites that left me with a few scars .. all it all it was a fun time tho!!...I moved into a new apartment in toronto. Me and Angie, and then another girl Sophie! Its so nice, its kind of like a condo building, it has a pool, gym, sauna, tennis courts, pool table. etc.. and then our place is on the 16th floor, and it overlooks toronto and Lake ontario. so we are right along the beach! Its really nice! Its only about 20 minute public transport ride away from down town, and the same distance to the airport so its perfect, and will definetly be more exciting than where we lived before! Looking forward to spending time there! We had a staff party the other night. It was a boat cruise, and it was a lot of fun! They had dinner and drinks and music and prizes (unreal prizes, that I didnt win) Like trips and everything! Here are a few pictures of the last little while.. enoy... xx

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I'm so awful at this blog business..

Well.. Figured after a month I'd come back and fill you in on my life... the only reason I remembered this existed, was from logging into MSN.. (grade 6 style) and seeing it in my status.. then I was embarassed it was in my status.. and removed it, thinking the last post was in like June something.. so I apologize.. for anyone that looks at this on any kind of basis!! I feel like June was years ago.. so much has happened! I ended up having the last week of June off, and the first week of July, so I was home for about 15 days, it was beautiful! I had my favourite day of the year off, Canada Day, of Course! and Spent it as usual, dressing like a loser and showing my patrioticness with Erinn!! I spent a lot of the next week with Mom, and the family! It was such a beautiful two weeks, so fortunate for the weather,  think it rained like one day! Me and Beth got a great tan to say the least!! I was so lucky to be able to spend the whole weekend on PEI for the Cavendish Beach Music Festival as welll... AND I also saw Will and Kate.. the more I talk about these two weeks at home, the more I appreciate it all!! The Concerts were AMAZING.. every show, was unforgettable, and totally worth every cent! Everyone put on an outstanding performance, and I was not dissappointed once the whole weekend. We had to say goodbye to our best friend and love of life on July 7th, It was probably the hardest thing I have had to deal with to date, but it's getting a little easier each day! I never imagined you could get that close to an Animal, and also never dreamed we would be burying her less then 2 years after we got her. I am so thankful I spent every day with her prior, and got some beautiful photo's as well! It also made it twice as hard to come back to Toronto for some reason.. I had no desire to get on the plane for he first time back, and operate a flight to London! Once I got there and got rollin' I was good to go though, and I have done 3 pairings since. (all londons) The weather there is such a nice break leaving from the Tropical Toronto. Literally, it probably isn't even this hot in Africa! I think they broke records from hundreds of years today.. with a temperature of like 39, before humidity! Insane right? These poor people on my flights vacationing here.. GO TO PEI! Today On my flight.... So ironically, someone asked me if I knew who wrote Anne of Green Gables.. It was a question in their crossword.. so strange eh?! I had a really nice flight today, no complainers, lots of laughs, and lots of people to talk to to pass the time!! We arrived right on time, into the blazing heat.. and Angie picked me upand we headed downtown! We ate on the rooftop bar, and drank a few beers, then decided to hit up the Fountain, and cool off!! So much fun! and It was the first day we have had off together in about a month!! Tomorrow I am heading back to London, again! I am really going to try and be more interesting, I promise :) May the sun shine your way and brighten your day!! Oh, and Check out this SUPER convenient Watch for a Flight Attendant!!!!!

Woops! Forgot about my Blog!

So, I haven't wrote on here for way too long!

Paris was really cool! It seems like so long ago I was there! I was lucky and ended up going with someone from my class, so we spent the whole time together. We arrived at noon, and didnt sleep all night, but we didn't want to sleep in Paris, so we stayed awake all day and toured around. The other flight attendants told us that we were lucky because we will never get many flights to Paris from Toronto, most are from montreal, one of the flight attendants hadn't had one for 10 years!! So we enjoyed it as much as we could! Our hotel was right along the water, so it was really good location. We got on one of those hop on hop off buses and toured around the whole city. We saw every main attraction.. all my pictures look the same now that I look at them tho.. all old buildings and a lot looks like London! After I got home from Paris I went to PEI for a week! It was super, minus the weather. So cold!! Its been so hot in toronto, going to PEI, felt like it was the fall again! I did jump in the pool once tho, just to say I went in! I got back to Toronto on Monday, and flew to London on Tuesday! It was nice to go somewhere I have been before, just so I could actually not feel like I had to stay awake, and tour around! I slept for 4 hours when I got there, and then went for supper with a girl from my class! We went for Indian food, and it was beautiful.. then met up with a Pilot who graduated with us, and we went for drinks and hung out in the Lobby for a bit later on! It was fun, and relaxing, and I slept more then anything else really when I was there, but it felt good! I got back last night, and now tonight I am going back to Glasgow for the weekend. THEN, I have 2 weeks off! wooo hooo!! Country concerts, wedding, and hopefully some beautiful weather! Can't wait!! The flying is going good! I have had for the most part some really amazing crews, who have been super helpful, and a lot easier! My flight home from Paris my Flight Director was kinda mean.. but I survived, and they told us that we will come across some like that! Blue Rodeo was on the plane we operated last night, they got off and then we got on... but kinda interesting!! other than that, havent met anyone really wild or anyone who stood out! See you all sooon!!!! Common Summer!!!

Life of a Flight Attendant = Unreal!

Well, All I can say is wow! I am loving life.. after a week that is! I am sure I will complain someday, but how can I after the first 10 days! When I got back from Glasgow, I slept very well! I was kind of nervous that I wouldn't be able to sleep, and then be tired for my next flight, but It worked out fine! I went to London the next evening! I was lucky to have another great crew to London! I had a different position this time, in the middle of the plane. The last two flights I had worked at the back, helping set everything up mainly, but this time I was servin left right and center! I had a jumpseat right in the middle of the plane too, and was pretty much touching knees with some passengers in front of me!! It was cosy! We had a super smooth nice flight to London. We got there at 10am, and then took this really nice Bus to Birmingham. We all slept the whole way! I went right to bed when we got to the hotel too, and slept until 6:30 or so! Its so hard when your in these beautiful new places, and all you want to do is sleep! (there is a picture of birmingham there.. but it kinda looks more like venice!)I woke up and Phil came to visit me, and we went for supper and some drinks! It was super nice to see him, and catch up! I went back and had a bath.. which is so inviting in all these hotels we stay in!! I got up early the next day and did some shopping before we had to take off! We flew from Birmingham to Toronto at 1. So we arrived around 4pm! We had a medical incident on that flight, a lady got really sick and was kind of passing in and out, then her son fainted watching her get sick! So we called for doctors and ther were luckily 2 on board and they took good care of the passengers. Its pretty nerve wrecking when someone is that sick.. not like we can just pull over anywhere for them. It must feel so awful being really sick on a plane! Most of the time you feel like crap on a plane anyway! When we arrived in Toronto, Angie picked me up and we went for supper and caught up! Its been so Hot in toronto, broke the record of 60 years yesterday here.. it was 43 with the humidity! Luckily we found some great islanders and hung out at their pool all day(picture of pool)!! So Thankful!, it was amazing. Today Angie headed home for a week, and tomorrow I head to PARIS for the weekend.. should be interesting.. but to be honest I'm more nervous about using my french al weekend then I am excited to go!! I am heading home to the Island on Monday if all goes well, and should be home for the whole week! Hopefully some of this Central Canadian heat will move on down the coast and keep me good company next week! We have a facebook group so that we can post our schedules and switch our flights around if we want to, so its really convienent. I was suppose to go back to Glasgow this weekend, but I switched it for a Paris flight, and then was suppose to go to Glasgow again the 19th, but switched it for a London on the 21st.... so its really easy to swtich things around, which is awesome for us! We can pretty much go home whenever we want! We have to fly standby with Porter, so as long as the planes not full, we get home for free :)! Hope I didn't bore you... I will update you soon on my Paris experience.. should be interesting!! A Bientot!!

First pairing = Success!

So, Im back in Toronto.. after a wild few days! Survived my first pairing! Woo hoo! It was so cool! I was pretty nervous heading to the airport, but once I got there, all my stress left. We arrived in the crew room to find out there were 8 crew doing their first flight, the 9th started in January, and the 10th and 11th were our Flight director and Assistant Flight director! They were amazing, and helped us so much. We were so luck to have such awesome people working with us, or it could have been a disaster! The passengers were amazing, can't expect anything less coming from Scottish Passengers.. so much fun!! The flight flew by. I was worknig at the back of the plane, helping with the Galley work most of the time, but I did lts of serving as well. At the end of the flight, Marc, our flight director announced it was out first flight, and everyone clapped.. so I guess we did something right! When we got to Glasgow it was such a rush, so neat! It was 7am, so we all went to sleep until noon, then went and walked around and shopped, and then the whole crew went for drinks and supper together! It was really nice! The accents in Glasgow are outrageous.. I honestly couldn't understand half the time... some of our crew were like " are they actually speaking English", so funny! My Flight back was not as exciting as my flight there.. we had a very bumpy flight.. and I was working at the back again, so it was even worse! Midflight, everything going really smooth.. we sit down and have our break and we are eating.. then the plane just goes out of control for a few seconds, and people let out some screams.. and it was scaryy! We all fastened our seat belts and just waited.. then the Pilot made an announcement that a Jumbo Jet had flown over us and gave us a big gust of wind... We were all nervous after that.. and then we had to go through a storm to land, and it was very turbulent! Im glad that I had those two experiences in my first few flights, now I know what to expect. but I hope it doesn't happen again!! I am back in TO for a little rest, then I am heading to London Gatwick tomorrow, and then deadheading to Birmingham for a night, then back to Toronto for 2 days off!! Its all very exciting.. I am loving walking through the airport in my uniform.. someone already asked for for directions the other day, and then another man in scotland asked me today, and I couldnt help him.. (but it was in the scotland airport, so I had good reason).. hes like, "you look like someone that should know things".. I was like yea.. "look".... So my first experience was super.. looking forward to the next... I am running on Glascow time at the moment.. 1am.. so confusing to get a sleeping pattern. but I think as long as I sleep i'll be fine... Happy June everyone.. enjoy the sunshine, when it decides to come back!!!!