Pictured here is the giant floating head known simply as “the guy” to his friends, and “Guy Favreau” to everyone else which in French means “protector of Canadian government employees, keeper of the gates and ports and polisher of shiny things“.
The Guy is responsible for greeting visitors, and startling small children, at the main offices for Passport Canada in the city. After doing the dance of respectability, going through the 6 forms of contortion and making a small offering of CAD, we returned today to find all our wishes granted: the shiny new passports were ready!
The question now is whether we’ll be able to actually use them. SCL completed their first phase of repairs two days early and resumed 24 hour operations, for both national and international flights. After a few attempts at enduring the incessant chatter of the on hold recording guy, I managed to get through to our carrier and their latest news is that we’ll be good to go on the seventh.
It’s starting to look as if even an earthquake won’t stop this ball from rolling down to south america. Huzzah 🙂
