Yesterday was was launch day! Veronica (forever known as Ronnie) and I headed to the airport and right before we picked up Ronnie to head to the airport she called to let me know that the flight had been delayed.
We were supposed to depart at 5:05 pm but only took off at around 7:30 pm. That wasn’t too bad. BUT, while we were waiting at gate “P” as instructed via our boarding tickets Ronnie realized that for whatever reason our actual gate letter had been changed to “S” but NO ONE told us! Sheesh. So then finally we are waiting at the right gate and Ronnie with her sly words managed to get both of us seats beside each other. Thank was nice of the attendant and we courteously thanked him for it!
So we fly. All is good, we watch “ghost town” or something like that. It was with Ricky Gervais, you know the one. Any who, we land and all is well. We taxi the runway onto a waiting area because all the terminals are full of other planes and we have to wait our turn. So we wait. And wait. And wait. For an hour, sitting in the hot, cramped small airplane.
We finally get off! We head towards the luggage where we wait for ohhhh, about another hour as our luggage doesn’t come. Then I noticed that on another luggage line and isn’t marked with our flight number that some luggage is coming through. Sure enough, our luggage had been going around the luggage belt on a totally different line and the one we were looking on was only for a Vancouver flight (but it was marked for Winnipeg and Vancouver). As we grab our stuff and head for a taxi the annoucement comes on that our luggage (Winnipeg flight) is on the other belt after we already found it. Thanks guy, appreciate the help.
At this point Ronnie and I are in a pissy mood because we were soo excited to get to Montreal but with all the rollercoaster emotions of having to wait I left us a bit exhausted. We get to our hostel, which by the way is fantastic and head to bed. Snoring on an epic level occurs from what I think is a mountain lion in my dorm room, head phones on and iTouch full blast I head to bed.
All in all the sleep was really good. We just had an afternoon of exploration and Montreal is SOOOO amazing. I am in love with this city. I can’t show you pictures until I get back but I promise you this city is amazing. Its amazingness makes up for what is a typical flight with good ol’ Air Canada.
But, I don’t want this to be a downer, Montreal is so beautiful. We had breakfast at this amazing Crepery and it was divine. I have never had a crepe so big and so delicious. The people are incredibly helpful, sweet, lovely, and they all can speak english which is a bonus for us.
Goodbye for now!
Denley
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