Trains, Planes & Shuttles

If any of you have seen the movie "Trains, Planes and Automobiles" than you just may appreciate this story a little more than others. My Canada trip last month started with getting up at 4:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning. Packed and ready to go my son, Dane, drives me to LAX, for what is to turn out to be an amazing two day Wedding Planners Retreat with Rock Star Wedding Planner, Ciara Daykin, and 9 other wedding planners. I know it will be two full days of knowledge, experience and emotion, but I am getting ahead of myself. Back to LAX.

Got there 2 1/2 hours before the flight. Good start. Then I find out that the handy dandy little credit card sized Passport that I had expedited to me is only good for travel into Canada by land or sea. What?! I called Dane back, he picked me back up and we sat in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant. He on his Iphone and me on my Blackberry trying to book travel arrangements. Long story short, I will be on a plane to Seattle, Washington. From there I drive, thank you for the rental with a GPS Brittany, to Vancouver, Canada and then on a flight to Calgary, Canada. Seven hours later than originally intended I am there. All is good, Ally is already there.

Two days of all day sessions, breaks, more sessions and then dinner with the group. We are now at 6:00 a.m. Wednesday. Did I mention that in order to accomplish this I had to alter my return date from Tuesday to Wednesday? Well I did, no problem. Off to the airport in Calgary to reverse the process to come home. Flew from Calgary to Vancouver, check. Went to get the rental car, problem, they don't take debit cards, checks or cash and the credit card didn’t have enough on it for the second round of rental car. Don't panic, call Brittany in the states and ask for HELP! Well 3 1/2 hours later I am now on a bus crossing the border back into the United States. Two more hours and I will be at Seattle airport waiting for another four hours before getting on an Alaska Airlines flight to LAX. Forty five minute car ride to Thousand Oaks and hello home! Now for those of you that know me, my glass is usually half full so for the half full part of this story besides all the amazing ideas to be implemented into Creative Party Concepts, I get to fly first class from Seattle to LAX.

Stop back soon for all types of need-to-know party tips from Creative Party Concepts to help make your special day or event just a little less stressful for you. ;-)

Debbie