It is Sept 18 (9 pm Porto time - I believe 7 hours ahead of Alberta time) and although we arrived safely in Porto Portugal, our luggage did not (all 4 of us have only our carry on luggage). The trip started off with Air Canada mixing up two names on their reservation list (e.g McGreg Phillips was my name - even though my boarding passes name matched my passport). We got that sorted out (hence the importance of allowing extra time at the airport), and we were ushered into a no wait line through security, and some colleagues got upgraded to "almost" first class because of mix-up on there seat booking - we thought well, this is going well. We arrived in Toronto and had to quickly rush to board our flight to Brussels - no time to even grab a bite to eat. I changed my seat so that I could have an isle seat and ended up at the back of the plan - yup - no meal selection by the time we got to our area (not to self about next time) - however, we did get some food. We thought that all was well until we arrived at Porto early this afternoon and even though the luggage carousel stopped, indicating the they were finished uploading, we eagerly awaited for our checked bags to come through, but sadly they did not. As we tried to check into our hotel, we were told that there was no registration under our names(almost panicked), we then realized that there are several hotel names that are similar and finally found our hotel. Wait, it does not end there, although we booked our rooms for 2 single beds in each room - we ended up with two rooms with one twin/double - but the hotel found cots for us to use and now we get a free breakfast, but still no luggage. After a ride on the gondola to the river (how smart are we, we road downhill and walked back uphill!!!!), an interesting tour on a scenic river cruise, followed by a nice glass of Portugal wine, we were thankful we had our passports, money and each other. We did get some emergency supplies (toothbrush, comb, extra large t-shirts and so forth from the airport to help us out overnight) we are trying to make the best of it. What tomorrow will bring, we are unsure, with only one of us wearing our hiking shoes and none of the supplies we packed for our journey available, this Camino has already taught us that we need to go with the flow. We still have our sense of humour and are confident that our luggage will arrive tomorrow, stay tuned. Signed the weary pilgrims in Porto.