Canadian Update

Well after taking 4 different modes of transportation I have arrived home...

It's so weird thinking that this is going to be a holiday for me here. I love it at home...It's about 6:30 in the morning and I have been up for about 3 hours. Love time zones....so I'll give you an update on my day yesterday...

So I made it to the airport at around 6:45...the check-in desk didn't open until 7 so that kind of sucked having to wait. But I was there waiting with canadians, and we were all just chatting it up and it was super fun just being with other canadians, and being able to talk with english speakers...it's so hard to communicate my sarcasm in German.

So I was a little nervous because I lost one of my papers that I thought I was going to need to cross the border, wasn't even a big deal. I ended up getting to my gate at about 10 minutes to 8!! Way to early....

So I waited for a while and talked with a 65 year old lady who was going on a tour of canada.

So then we got to the plane and I was right near the back and hoping so much that no one would come and sit in the middle. Sadly that didn't happen. This larger couple came towards the back of the plane, one had the middle seat in the row in front of us and one in our middle row. Luckily the skinny little asian guy who was sitting in the aisle seat quickly gave it up for them to sit together out of the 'kindness of his heart'. I asked him why he was so quick to give it out, and he just held up his hands and demonstrated the wideness of the people , I understood, no one wants to sit beside a fatty on the airplane.

The people on the plane were pretty cool though. One is a potential olympic athlete who is on the canadian 100 m hurdles team. They were coming back from a meet in qatar. The skinny little asian from before worked for a running magazine in toronto. They were both pretty chill. What sucked however is that about halfway through the flight I got a bit of a migraine so that really sucked. I was even contemplating a little puke, but I held back because I didn't want to go to the bathroom, nor puke in front of people. So I held off. I had to keep the windows shut and my sleep mask on.

So I survived, and my flight landed at about 12:30...and I was in a little bit of a panic because my flight to winnipeg was taking off at 1:40...and I still had to go through customs and drop off my luggage.

They were kind enough to to have an express line through customs, which was enough of a panic because they asked me how much I was bringing back...then he explained that it was how much from the past 8 and a half months....YIKES!! I have no idea how much, like literally no idea especially because I didn't even bring everything back with me..

So I got through quickly which did not even pay off a little, because I then had to wait so long for my luggage. I then went (quickly) to the counter to get my next boarding pass...arriving at 1:20, check in had already begun. So I asked her if I was going to have to run, and she said...noo, with the question mark sound at the end and I  knew that it would probably not be a bad idea. I loaded up my stuff and quickly rushed off to security.

At security there luckily wasn't a huge line and I said to the people in front of my "I'm sorry I don't mean to be rude, I don't think I'm better than anyone else, I'm just really late." So they all let me pass. Then the guy made me take off my shoes and my belt. I also forgot to take off all my jewellery so I lit up like a lightbulb. Then I got to do I full body scan, thank goodness I held my mouth and didn't say anything dirty, which I always am tempted to do.

I was panicked at this point so I grabbed my stuff, smashed my computer into my bag and took off running...sans shoes, through the toronto airport. And as luck had it I was at gate D45, which could not have been any further away. I was a mess!!

I did make it in time to my airplane and just crashed in my seat and immediately apologized to my seat mate and then talked for about 5 straight minutes due to the adrenaline rush.

So then we flew for a while and landed in winnipeg, and I teared up right there on the airplane. Then we got off and instead of immediately seeing my dad I went pee. And then I was like, ok time to see him and headed down the stairs and didn't even make it halfway down before crying again. I knew I was going to make a scene. I was just so over tired.

Then we went to go see my oma and opa and uncle and cousin, who talks so much. It was super cute.

Then immediately to VJs for what was the greatest hamburger I have ever eaten. I brought it home and drank it with a wonderful glass of milk. I died a little bit of happiness inside. I could probably use about   700000 yums to describe it. It was soo perfect....

Then I crashed...