July 1

The trip home.

This morning Katie, Jacob, Kylee, and I woke up really early and took the 7:20 am shuttle to the airport. Once we got there, Kylee and I got separated from Katie and Jacob pretty quickly because they were in a different terminal than we were. Kylee and I both didnt have a flight for at least four hours, so it was too early to check in. We took the escalator upstairs, and got some breakfast. We both had the typical croissant and Kylee also had some coffee.

After sitting there for about an hour, we both went downstairs, separated, and then checked in.

The five, long and lonely hours I had to wait in the airport finally passed, and it was time to board my plane! I got on my plane and everything was going well, but we did not take off for 40 minutes after we were scheduled to. So after we took off, the flight was not that bad, but I could not get myself to fall asleep, so I basically just watched movies and played solitaire the entire time.

We finally landed in Montreal, but they did not have a gate for us because we got in late because of our delayed take off. We ended up sitting on our plane for another hour before we were able to get a gate. The entire time we were sitting on the plane waiting for a gate, I was starting to freak out because it kept getting closer and closer to my take off time for my next flight to Chicago. I was supposed to have a 1 hour and 45 minute layover, but I did not get off the plane till 10 minutes before my flight was supposed to leave. I get off and try to hurry to customs, I have five minutes left at this point, but there was no one there. Many people were trying to rush to another flight because our previous one had been so delayed, but apparently there was no representative there from Air Canada, so they couldn't let us go through.

Thankfully, I had turned my phone on and gotten a text from the airline that said my flight was delayed an hour! If that flight had not been delayed, I do not know when I would have gotten home. After the short flight from Montreal to Chicago, I was picked up and finally home!