Home, almost in one piece...

We arrived home last night, too bad that the bike cases we bought didn't :-(. We were told that the Dash-8 we were on from Calgary was too full and they tend not to have enough space for oversized luggage when they're full (there seemed to be a number of others in the baggage office from the same flight looking for their luggage). The baggage agent told us that it would probably arrive on another flight from Calgary later that night and would be delivered to us this morning.

So, morning came and went, nothing. And we were a bit concerned that their "baggage tracker" feature had no information (as if they didn't know where the cases were - *we* knew they were in Calgary, why didn't Air Canada know that?). So Ed called their toll-free number this afternoon - again, they had no information (though they were likely in Toronto, we couldn't find a local number to call). But I felt much better later just now when according to the baggage tracker, the cases have been received at the airport and have been turned over to FedEx for delivery.

(though, considering they'll probably try to deliver tomorrow when we're at work and then we'll have to pick it up somewhere else anyway, it might have been easier to just pick the cases up at the airport - but that didn't seem to be an available option).

I'm just glad that we'll be on a direct flight, big plane, from Edmonton to London in July, so less opportunity for something like this to happen to our bikes then. If on the way home (Paris to Toronto to Edmonton) the bikes get delayed in Toronto a few days, oh well...

And just for good measure, here's a photo of Mario Aerts in the prologue as he was trying to fix his chain (he didn't get a team car following him to help), as mentioned here: