home safe

[the_siobhan]

The flight home was marred only by Toronto weather - severe thunderstorms over the airport meant the plane couldn't land, then after being in a holding pattern for a while over the city we had to fly to Ottawa to get more fuel. Then we had to wait to actually get the fuel because there were other planes in line ahead of us and then by the time it was our turn the thunderstorm had caught up with us. They don't like their people working around big metal tubes when there is lightning around, go figure. So we sat on the tarmac and waited for it to blow over. We couldn't even get off the plane.

Once the storm had gotten past the crashing and banging stage we got back to Toronto easily enough and customs, baggage claim and the taxi ride home went as smoothly as always. I ended up home at 2 am after being up for 25 hours and being in transit for almost 17 of those.

I slept like a baby last night.

It was a brilliant trip. More posts later when I get a chance to sort the photos and retrace our steps.

Comments

[greylock]

They don't like their people working around big metal tubes when there is lightning around, go figure

FFS. Spend seconds wheeling the stairs out, let folks off the plane, and sort the rest out later.

[greylock]

Yeah. Screwed up the formatting on that.

[the_siobhan]

Since we weren't scheduled to be there were no staff to do it, no place to put us, no way to ensure that we didn't get mixed up with the people from other planes in the same position and nobody to herd us back on the plane when it was ready to go. I completely understand why doing that would more of a logistical nightmare than just having us chill on the tarmac.

[greylock]

When you put it like that. But I've heard horror stories of being being trapped on planes on the tarmac for hours. It freaks me out a lot.

[mschaos]

very glad you made it home safe even tho the weather was trying to prevent that