Wednesday 9th May
Up at 5 am for shuttle to airport for Air Canada flight at 8
am to Toronto and on to Halifax. You
have to pay on Air Canada for each item of checked luggage at $23 per piece and
also for any food on board ( got free water and soda tho !!) and what we had
was stale filled roll and cardboard pizza. That’s why we saw people taking a
packed lunch on board. Uneventful flight ( watched 2 movies “A Good Year” and
“The Help”) until we landed at Toronto about 4 pm and stopped about 20 metres from airbridge as
there was a huge electrical storm and the whole airport had gone to a” Red
Alert” status and had effectively shut down and all ground staff had to stay
indoors. We stayed there for about 40 minutes until storm had passed –pretty
spectacular thunder and lightning. Once we had docked we had a mad rush through
immigration and customs, got bags back on conveyor and on to our 5.30 pm plane,
sat there for a while ready to go but before we got off ground the crew ran out
of flying time and there was another 2 hour delay while they found a new crew ( who should have
been flying to Orlando!!). We finally
left Toronto at 10 pm and arrived in Halifax at 1 am to find our lovely friends Janet and
Bruce still waiting to whisk us off to John and Norma’s house for the night.
What faithful friends !!
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