After dragging ourselves out of bed and our hostel (the place where they kept the TV on the dresser in the closet. Oh did I mention the room before this, I don't believe so. When you opened the door it would hit the dresser that was far to big for the room itself but management decided it needed to be crammed in there whether or not there was enough space.) at some ungodly hour (5:57am), we made it to our check-in gate in good time, only to discover that our mid-way stop off to Chicago was currently besieged by bad weather/the rapture and that we were going to shuffled onto another flight.....9 hours later.
Cue much more hanging around in airports. We did have the option if possibly getting on an earlier flight from Toronto to Vancouver to Seattle flight but we were lazy. F'it.
We had asked the Air Canada lady when the earliest we could check-in was, to my surprise she answered 4 hours before the flight. It shouldn't take that long right? Luckily we have some time to spare.
It was time to check-in and go through customs, now here was the shocker was they told us to stand in the line to our left which snaked around to part 2, the line to the right which snaked around to the customs desks. I cannot say how long we were in this line for but we did finish two crosswords! Now that I think about it I should have taken a photo of the lengthy line.
Danny was electronically finger printed, stamped and waved on through to security were we stood in another cue.
On the other side we made ourselves comfy behind the Starbucks on their couches. A mere couple hours later we were asked to move from one gate to another gate. A short while later we were asked again to move back to the previous gate. Seriously?!
It was soon time to board our flight (luckily this one is direct from Toronto to Seattle) The gentleman at the counter told us that due to the fact that we were on stand by we might not get on this flight. NOW THEY TELL US THIS??!!! So if all goes wrong we were going to spend an evening in Vancouver [overnight] or Calgary airport. Lame Sauce.
We waited impatiently for our names to be called, FINALLY the announcement was made for us to board. Phew! Woohoo! They had to last minute seat us so when we made it onto the plane we got 1st class, or was it business class? Either way it sure was freaking cushy. Free alcoholic beverages and the fanciest meal I have ever had on a plane. I guess this is payment for our 9 hour wait and being moved around Toronto airport. I'm pretty sure that I will not be returning to Toronto anytime soon....
Almost 5 hours later we have made it to States, I thought we would never make it but then again I always think that.
After finally arriving in Seattle, we rode a talking train downtown and found our hotel with relative ease. The place was pretty awesome (the creep who checked in the same time as us, less so) full to the brim with art, and our room's walls adorned with many very expressive hot dogs looking down on us and tonnes of space. The hostel was very busy, so in order to take advantage of the burgeoning social atmosphere we went straight to bed. Oh yeah, the hostel's name was City Hostel Seattle check it out. I would totally recommend staying there!
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