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I'm in Canada. OMGWTF.
Yesterday was pretty well the longest day of my natural bioexistence. Well, I'm not sure you can really call it yesterday. The timezone changes have a fucked up effect on time.
So. April 14th 2008, at approximately 23:00 we hit I airport, went through all ze madness and security checkups and whatnot, boarded a 767 - got a window seat with a lovely view of... well, the wing. XD Not that I minded - you could still see quite a bit of view, and I was FASCINATED by the random wing transformations. ^^; But.. whatever. Teh plane took off sometime around 1:30 AM-ish if I recall correctly. The next 11-12 hours I spent in the air. Long-ass flight. I think my brain halfway fried.
Eventually landed in Toronto at... 6:20 AM. (Who the heck is Lester Pearson anyway? Sounds like a cartoon character...) One form and several random officers later, I took my first steps into what appeared to be, at first, a wholly alien planet.
For a few seconds. Then I realized it's exactly the same with a bit moar French. XD
I spent the next half-a-day in the airport - fortunately, El-Al airlines are also attached to Terminal 3 (where I had to take my next flight from) so I didn't have TOO much wandering around to do. Spent all these hours listening to music and reading assorted chapters of Catch-22 (Awesome book, btw, although it's halfway impossible to read from end to end without taking long breaks. So EFFing scrambled). Checked in to my next flight (to Charlottetown via WestJet), and eventually, after even MOAR hours in Toronto, boarded a 737 - I got an aisle seat this time, but its location at the relative back of the plane meant I had a perfect view to ANOTHER window that was nearby. XD
The next 1-hours-50-minutes I spent on said 737 (the flight was oddly reminiscent of Jurassic Park - I was surrounded by living fossils from multiple directions XD) and my most vivid memory is STILL when we started descending and then the sun - complete with a VERY large reflection on ze Atlantic - radiated into the plane. MY EYES, ZE GOGGLES DO NOTHING!
Canada is surprisingly much brown-greyer from the air than I expected. XD
I would also like to point out that FINALLY meeting Katie in reality is epic frelling win. ^___________^
So there. I've arrived, settled in... Let the insanity begin. >>;
Yesterday was pretty well the longest day of my natural bioexistence. Well, I'm not sure you can really call it yesterday. The timezone changes have a fucked up effect on time.
So. April 14th 2008, at approximately 23:00 we hit I airport, went through all ze madness and security checkups and whatnot, boarded a 767 - got a window seat with a lovely view of... well, the wing. XD Not that I minded - you could still see quite a bit of view, and I was FASCINATED by the random wing transformations. ^^; But.. whatever. Teh plane took off sometime around 1:30 AM-ish if I recall correctly. The next 11-12 hours I spent in the air. Long-ass flight. I think my brain halfway fried.
Eventually landed in Toronto at... 6:20 AM. (Who the heck is Lester Pearson anyway? Sounds like a cartoon character...) One form and several random officers later, I took my first steps into what appeared to be, at first, a wholly alien planet.
For a few seconds. Then I realized it's exactly the same with a bit moar French. XD
I spent the next half-a-day in the airport - fortunately, El-Al airlines are also attached to Terminal 3 (where I had to take my next flight from) so I didn't have TOO much wandering around to do. Spent all these hours listening to music and reading assorted chapters of Catch-22 (Awesome book, btw, although it's halfway impossible to read from end to end without taking long breaks. So EFFing scrambled). Checked in to my next flight (to Charlottetown via WestJet), and eventually, after even MOAR hours in Toronto, boarded a 737 - I got an aisle seat this time, but its location at the relative back of the plane meant I had a perfect view to ANOTHER window that was nearby. XD
The next 1-hours-50-minutes I spent on said 737 (the flight was oddly reminiscent of Jurassic Park - I was surrounded by living fossils from multiple directions XD) and my most vivid memory is STILL when we started descending and then the sun - complete with a VERY large reflection on ze Atlantic - radiated into the plane. MY EYES, ZE GOGGLES DO NOTHING!
Canada is surprisingly much brown-greyer from the air than I expected. XD
I would also like to point out that FINALLY meeting Katie in reality is epic frelling win. ^___________^
So there. I've arrived, settled in... Let the insanity begin. >>;
