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Trip Start Mar 11, 2005
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Trip End Mar 27, 2005


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Friday, March 11, 2005

Our trip on Shawn's birthday went pretty well. We caught the KLM bus at the Ottawa train station and they dropped us off at the departure gate at Trudeau Airport in Montreal. It cost $45 to park the van at the train station for a month, way better than a week's fee at the park n fly at the Ottawa airport. This bus trip to Montreal was included in the price of our airline ticket. It is KLM's way of servicing Ottawa since they are not allowed to fly out of Ottawa. Upon check in, they gave us our boarding passes for the Montreal-Amsterdam portion as well as the Amsterdam-Accra portion of the trip. They ticketed our bags to go straight through to Accra, which was nice not having to collect them in Amsterdam and recheck them again. The flight left about 30 min late because the snow had developed into quite the little snowstorm in Montreal and we had to wait our turn to be deiced. The flight was nice and smooth, just a few bumps when they served the tea and coffee, which is par for the course. Shortly after take off, crackers and drinks were offered and shortly after the attendants came around with hot towels - haven't seen that in years! I guess it is something KLM still does. The movie was Wimbeldon. Dinner was a choice of chicken or pasta. A breakfast box was handed out about 1 1/2 hours before landing, which still managed to be on time even after the delay in taking off. The breakfast was a Cheerios breakfast bar, a yogurt, a fruit cup and a drinking box. The flight time was 7 1/2 hours.
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