Took off early this morning from Olathe, Kansas actually saw the sunrise in the air. Called Canpass (customs and immigration) for clearance into Canada and asked them to meet us in Regina at 4pm. Didn't count on the layer of low cloud that we encountered in Oneill, Nebraska. Spoke to the weather guys for close to 45 minutes before we decided that going east would be enough to skirt the freezing rain and 400 foot ceilings. Called Canpass again and told them that we would be arriving in Winnipeg at 4pm instead of Regina. With all of the diversions around the clouds we didn't have enough fuel to make Winnipeg, so stopped in Grand Forks for fuel, called Canpass for the third time to amend the arrival time to 5:15pm. So actually crossed into Canada at 4:55pm. Landed in Winnipeg, waited for Canpass to check us out, when we finally called them they said they never knew we were coming. Go figure.
When they finally did arrive, they asked a couple questions and welcomed us to Canada. We took a quick look at the weather and made the easy decision to head for Yorkton, where my parents were. Called Mom collect and said pick us up in an hour and a half!
The 75 minute flight was great until the last 15 minutes when we encountered some mist and since it was getting close to sunset we couldn't see the lights of Yorkton until we were 10 miles out. However we got in just before dark and hangared the plane with plans to leave Good Friday for Saskatoon.
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