Our Trip to Peru - Daily Diary: Day one

Day One - Friday:

Check-in at 3pm on Flight AC 80 from TO to Lima, Peru flying out at 5.35pm.  Air Canada strikes again!No plane at the gate, no staff at the counter, no announcements to be heard.  Board late via an unintelligible male drone on the PA system.  Sit on plane for at least 1 hour while they fix a malfunctioning 'IPS' system.  Watch fellow pax board like pack yaks - 8 pieces of luggage each to be squished unceremoniously into every nook and cranny like squirrels storing acorns.  As usual, over-the-hill, bored and otherwise disinterested staff adorned with desultory service faces plastered on like masks.  Food blach, tea ...excuse, but is that what you call it?

Finally arrive in Lima after 7.5 hours flight - painful journey because of back issues, but c'est la vie.  Met at Airport Jorge Chavez by Rodolfo our guide, who commandeered our luggage and scrutinized our passports before escorting us to Hotel Casa Andina where we dropped ourselves in a comfortable king-size bed at 4am and slept a peaceful first night in Lima - wonderful to stretch out and be comfortable after a torturous sardine can experience in seats 37 A and C.   (Forgot to mention the 50 minutes cattle pen experience for luggage drop-off - another award winning AC service.  Remind me never to fly them again.) 

AC slogan: "We're not happy till you're not happy" - apt!