Montreal - Leg 1 of the Journey Complete
Trip Start
Jun 16, 2008
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Trip End
Aug 14, 2008
Winnipeg,
Manitoba,
Canada
Monday, June 16, 2008
on the flight. Sat next to a girl from Poznan, Poland who went to high
school for a year here and worked 3 jobs too! I think her name was
Monika. Don't worry Megan, just friendly conversation! Besides she had
a pillow that had a collage of her boyfriend painted on it! It was
relieving to see because it seemed like she was trying hard to hit on
me, I guess she was just very outgoing! Anyways I spent most of the
flight watching Jumper! It was the perfect travel movie because the
main character has a house with 1000s of pictures of places around the
world he has jumped to. So he goes to London for the night and slips
out of a girl's house in the wee hours of the morning to go surfing,
and so fourth. I wish it wasn't a day of flying to go overseas, but
rather instant teleporting! That would be so sweet! Anywho, Got to
Montreal the plain, old fashioned way! And I tried catching the
Poland-Crotia game, but we had traversed into an"international zone" of
Pierre Elliot Trudeau Airport and couldn't go back to the Timmy's,
close to where the game was being shown. The great thing about this
line is that it constantly shifts. So the airport is divided into maybe
4 or 5 departure gates and then sliding doors, and if a flight takes
off in that zone all traffic backwards is halted! So we could finally
get back at 6 PM to buy some cheap and delicious Timmy's drinks and
sammis. We had a funny encounter with the French security guard
patrolling the Canada-International zone shifting line... he said going
back would not be possible, and started to get all hostile when we just
asked a question, NO, IT IS NOT POSSIBLE! That is why they pay me? Do
you think I stand here for free? Haha, and the boys and girls happened
to approach him at separate times and we later met up again to learn
that he tells everyone that! SO FUNNY!
Anyways we were delayed
and delayed. And finally left almost 3.5 hours later than expected
after already waiting 3 hours for the layover. Haha, I asked if they
were giving out vouchers or something, and the lady said they only do
that for delays over 3 hours, so I remind her "we were supposed to
leave at 7:55, it is past 11:15 now!"
That's all for this day,
the entries will be more exciting I promise! I'll add some pics to this
and catch up because we are already up to June 19 sitting typing this
in the Hotel Aristotelis in Athens, Greece! Finally Free WIFI! You'll
hear about my fiasco getting to Athens soon! So there's a hook for you!
Love you and miss you all!
Maciej
