I don’t think we could have chosen a worse day to fly than today, but in some ways it was a good day to fly. The Toronto Boards of Education closed all the schools today and many businesses either closed or told their employees to work from home. So even though the roads were in rough shape (snow covered and slippery) they weren’t overly busy so the people who had to drive managed to get from point A to point B in a reasonable amount of time.

Since we had opted to drive to an airport hotel yesterday we were able to have a leisurely morning and the hotel was very accommodating and gave us a 2pm check out. Our flight was schedule for 8:05pm so it was going to be a long day of waiting. We hung out in the hotel lobby to 3pm then got on the shuttle bus for the airport. We had our boarding passes and baggage tags by 3:30 --- too early to drop the bags off. After finding a place to sit we chatted with 2 ladies who were off to Australia and had the same problem of being too early to drop their bags off. At 4:30 we dropped our bags off and went to security where we walked right in loading our carryon bags onto the belt --- no wait today. I believe I heard that 100s of flights were cancelled today but they all appeared to be flights with Canadian or US destinations. All of the international flights left either early, on time or like us delayed. Our flight was delayed 3 hours for 3 reasons, first the incoming flight was late, then the runway needed to be plowed and finally all the departing planes needed to be de-iced. I feel I need to commend the airport and Air Canada on the great job they did on keeping air traffic moving safely. Happily the flight was uneventful.

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The airport.

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Our plane finally arrived and is parked at the gate.