Home for X-mas!

(The pics for Mexico are still coming.. taking some time to track down Colin and get his pics!)

But as per the title of this blog entry states... I'm coming home for X-mas. I was looking through my days off schedule through December and found out that my 3 days off run over Christmas.

The days in question are Friday December 23rd to Sunday December 25th.

So I will be leaving Calgary early early in the morning on the 23rd taking advantage of a seat sale with AirCanada and returning on the last flight on Sunday Evening. So this time I will actually get to spend X-mas at home with family and friends rather than working night shifts in our company office like I did last year! So.. just confirmed all the tickets online 5mins ago so it is a go, nothing better screw this up work wise, but it should be pretty solid. I'm one of the lucky few to have his days off fall over the holidays as we have holiday blackouts from December 21st to January 5th that no employee is allowed to take off as it is a very busy time for us as our clients fly all over the place visiting family and going to company parties and stuff like that.

On a side note, my last few flights have been crazy early in the morning and I've been getting some really crazy sleep. I've had 3 05:00am flights and even one that was scheduled for 04:42am! Keep in mind that's the time that the plane takes off and us pilots need to be at the airport at least an hour before departure to prepare for the flight. So add another 15mins for travel and 45mins to wake up, shower, shave and get dressed... and you're looking at a freaking 2:42am alarm clock setting! I believe I got about a whopping hour and 15mins of sleep that night. Thankfully we then had a day room booked at a hotel so we could go and sleep and relax for a few hours before the return flight home in the afternoon.

Well there we go... so hopefully I see some of you over Xmas! Woo hoo!