On Baby A's birthday, the c-section surgery went as planned. I walked into the OR around 9:30am and was pushed out around 2 hours later. W was instructed to wait outside while the team was getting me prepared for anesthesia. He then got invited to come in and sat next to me while the team worked on getting Baby A out of me 😂. W was a good DJ and Baby A was born while Taylor Swift's Shake It Off was being played. So...did I feel any pain during this life-changing surgery? No, I didn't. I had a spinal block. I never felt any type of pain during the surgery. Getting the anesthesia injected - however - was the most uncomfortable part of the surgery. There was a lot of pressure. I felt my back being pulled or pushed, or something. It just felt very uncomfortable, not painful, but very uncomfortable. It was also hard to try leaning toward the source of that uncomfortableness. Learning to relax while being uncomfortable was a very hard thing to do. But it was necessary. Once it...
We flew to Seoul with Air Canada for our trip to Korea in 2018.✈ ✈ ✈
2018年的韓國行, 我們坐的是加拿大航空
W was very hesitant on booking with this airline because of his previous experience with the airline that happened a year before the trip to Korea, which involved multiple delays not because of weather and led to missing the subsequent flight and had to sleep in Narita Airport in Japan (in that incident, W ended up having to purchase a last minute standby ticket for another flight with another airline in Narita in order to meet up with me in Hokkaido the next morning, Air Canada did nothing to help). This incident happened in 2017, though even up until now, we sometimes still joke about that experience and say "at least it was Narita" since we both like Narita Airport. Nonetheless, we still ended up booking with Air Canada on its' website for our trip to Korea. This particular experience was alright.
W對於坐加航其實很有保留, 因為之前有過不太好的經驗, 去韓國的一年前曾因為加航的多次非天氣因素的延飛導致錯過後面的班機使他最後在日本的成田機場過夜 (那次的結果是W最後自己在成田機場臨時跟別的航空公司買候補機位坐隔天早上的飛機到北海道與我會和, 加拿大航空並沒有給予任何協助). 這個事件發生在2017年, 即便到現在, 我們有時還會笑說"至少是被困在成田"來開這個事情的玩笑因為我們滿喜歡成田機場.無論如何, 最後還是在加拿大航空的網站訂了去韓國的機票. 而這次的經驗是普普.
The flight from Denver to Vancouver was very early - 6:30am. At the time we also lived about 1.5 hours of drive away from the airport. We actually stayed up the night before the flight and left home at...4am. We used Green Ride (shared-ride for pick up/drop off) to avoid 2 weeks of parking fees at the airport. Green Ride driver called us just a few minutes before our scheduled pick-up time to let us know he's just a few minutes away. The driver picked us up from our doorstep and dropped us off at the terminal for our flight (switched to another minivan once). We've used Green Ride several times during our time in Colorado and would recommend for convenience (especially for people who don't live so close to the airport, or not want to drive early in the morning or late at night in unpredictable weather, or knew they'd be exhausted after a long flight and would prefer someone else to do the drive).
從Denver去Vancouver的班機很早 - 6:30am. 那時候我們住的地方離機場還有1.5小時的車程. 我們其實飛的前一晚沒睡, 飛機當天的早上4點從家裡出發. 我們使用了Green Ride的服務 (共乘接送)來避免在機場停車兩個禮拜. Green Ride的司機在原先預計的時間前幾分鐘打電話來通知快到我們家了. 司機從家門口接我們 然後一路載去班機的航廈 (中間有換一次車). 我們住在Colorado時期用過Green Ride幾次也滿推薦因為很方便 (尤其對於住的離機場較遠的人, 或者不想清晨或半夜開車的人, 還有已經能預料長程航班後會很疲憊寧可搭車的人).
I tried to finish check-in online the night before the flight but the airline website said I had to do it in-person at a counter, which I thought "alright, maybe it's because the final destination is outside of US so they wanted to check something in person." Upon check-in at Denver Airport, I was informed by the airline's representative that I needed to apply for eTA for passing through Canada. I didn't know about this and had no idea what eTA even means, and would've done it at home had I known it sooner. I ended up applying for it on my phone just right in front of the airline counter, paid the fees over the phone, and showed confirmation of eTA to the airline representative right afterwards and finished check-in thereafter.
去韓國的前一晚, 我試著做網路辦理登機的手續, 但是航空公司網站跳出訊息說我必需在櫃檯做面對面地辦理, 而當時我也想著"大概是因為目的地是在美國之外, 所以有甚麼需要面對面地確認吧." 到了Denver機場之後, 航空公司的櫃台人員說我需要申請eTA 才能在加拿大轉機. 我本來並不曉得也不清楚甚麼是eTA, 不然早早就先準備好了. 結果 我在櫃檯現場用手機上網申請了eTA, 手機上網繳了申請費, 然後給櫃檯人員看收據來完成登機步驟.
It was my fault for not checking the Canadian customs website for information about passing through Canada, though I honestly didn't expect to encounter anything like this because my prior visits to Canada only involved showing proof of resident status in the US without any need to apply for anything, let alone this was just for a 55 minutes of layover. Anyway, the online application process was fairly straightforward and it took just a few minutes from start to finish to finish check-in.
沒有事先檢查加拿大出入境轉機的資訊是我的疏忽, 不過我真的沒想到會遇到這樣情況因為之前到加拿大旅行只需要秀出美國居民的證明 並沒有需要額外申請甚麼, 更何況這只是55分鐘的轉機停泊. 不管怎樣, 網路申請的過程很簡而明瞭, 從頭到尾到完成check-in只花了幾分鐘.
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| Not sure if the overhead for the plane we were on was just lower than usual or not...but I hit it several times to the point I decided to take a picture of it with my hand to show how low it seemed. 不確定頭上的那層(不知道overhead中文叫甚麼?)是不是比平常所見的特別矮...我撞了它好幾次 所以甚至以手當比例照了照片來看看是不是特別矮💧 |
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| This was taken in Vancouver Airport ☂. I remember it was kinda unusual for us to see a "cloudy rainy day" because we were so used to seeing blizzard snowy days instead. 這是在溫哥華機場照的. 還記得當時感覺有點不習慣看到陰天降雨的樣子 因為習以為常的是冰天雪地的樣子 |
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| I had to take a picture of the chess set when I saw it at Vancouver Airport.😊 在溫哥華機場看到這組西洋棋 我不得不得照一下 |
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| The flight from Vancouver to Incheon was over 11 hours long and we had the "middle seats" (seats in the middle aisle). 從溫哥華前往仁川的班機飛了11個小時多 我們坐的是"中間座位" |
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| These were the movies I "planned" to watch during the flight 😂 這些是我原本"計畫"在飛機上要看的電影 |
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| I ended up watching everything on the list in the previous picture except "Meow" because I fell asleep. The title and the description seemed entertaining so I took a picture of it so I would remember the title and maybe...would look for it to watch later, but even today I still haven't seen it 😅 結果我把上面清單的每個電影都看了, 除了那部"Meow"因為我睡著了. 電影名字和描述看起來挺有歡樂所以照了一張照片想說之後記起也許...會去搜來看, 不過直到今天我都還沒看過. |
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| I don't remember what the food was called... and don't remember anything special about it... 不記得這食物是啥....也不記得有甚麼特殊的.. |
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| Jajangmyeon - noodle dish with thick savory black gravy. There was a bit of green peas in the sauce. 炸醬麵 - 有著黑黑的鹹醬的麵食. 醬裡面有點青豆. |
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| This was our breakfast on the plane. Egg salad sandwich with biscuits. The sandwich was pretty good, I remember I liked it. 這是我們在飛機上的早餐. 蛋沙拉三明治搭配餅乾. 三明治還滿好吃的, 記得我還滿喜歡的. |
原本計畫是在離開機場前要先買T-Money卡(一人一張). 不過, 排隊的人很多 而且只有兩台機器在賣(而且我們想買的是LINE版本的卡 而那兩台機器裡只有一台有賣), 而那台有賣LINE主題的卡的機器很神輕地在我們排隊了半小時後壞了. 所以, 我們沒卡的離開機場. 反正還有很多機會可以在城市裡買T-Money卡. 沒甚麼大不了的!
So, the first thing we did after landing in Incheon ended up just be buying tickets for the express train to take us to Seoul (we used A'rex). Incheon Airport is located roughly an hour of train ride away from Seoul. 🚄 After we got to Seoul, we took the subway to get to Myeongdong, where our hotel was located.
於是, 我們到了仁川做的第一件事變成了買去首爾的車票(我們用的是A'rex). 仁川機場距離首爾坐機場鐵路花不到一小時的時間. 到了首爾之後 我們換搭地鐵前往飯店所在的明洞.
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| After coming out from the subway, this was our first view of Seoul! 從地鐵出來後, 這是我們看到首爾的第一幕! |
As a reminder
提醒大家
- "All lawful permanent residents of the U.S. (Green Card holders) are required to have an eTA to fly to, or transit through, a Canadian airport." To learn more about if you need to apply for a visa/eTA when passing through Canada, click here to check out the latest info from Government of Canada. 所有美國居民(綠卡持有者)入境或經過加拿大機場都需要有eTA. 點我查看加拿大政府網站提供的相關資訊 .
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