Chapter 2
16 hours of nerve racking travel!

Arrived at the airport at around 2pm and tried to get one of those $2 carts to carry our luggage- insert $2 but it won't release the cart- go to another booth- insert $2 but it wont release the cart- look at the ole lady and said” I hope this isn't an indication of things to come. Finally, on the 3rd booth and $6, success, we now have a cart carrying our luggage.

Into the airport we go with our $6 cart and a big grin thinking this cart business is going to be the only hiccup of the day, yea right! After a short look see we find the Sunwing area for tickets and join the long line of what I hoped would be excited fellow passengers, but that was not to be. No sooner did we get in line a representative from Sunwing announces that our plane has been sent to Mexico to pick up passengers because their plane had some problems. We would only be delayed 3 hrs, our 5pm flight has been pushed ahead to 8pm but Sunwing was giving us a $10 voucher for supper, yip eee!! Now I'm not sure about any 1 else but the thought of spending from 2 till 8 in an airport is about as much fun as a tooth ache. Now there have been 2 hiccups since arriving at the airport, all in 15 minutes.

OK, now to find a place to rest for 5 hours, this is easier said than done. We walked around for half an hour and find an area at one end of the airport with lots of those seats that are bolted together. And there was no-one else around, perfect I thought. Not only was it a nice quiet place but out the window in front of us was a beautiful huge Air Delli aircraft, the one that has showers and bedrooms for the rich travelers. We are by ourselves so I turn 1 set of seats around so we can put our feet up and read or take a nap, not to be!! Just as I am falling into a nice sleep I hear a bunch of voices getting louder by the second and then it happened. That beautiful air plane was also delayed by a few hours and like us those people found our little piece of airport heaven and thought it a great place to set up shop. Just my luck, I can't find a cab when I need one. Kids yelling and jumping all over the seats and the adults oblivious to the kids. Can someone tell me why these people have to yell at each other in normal conversation, its beyond me the noise and it made the wife and I very uncomfortable. How dare we invade their space. The kids where bumping into me and the wife and I was about to explode. We decided to move, Jamaica seemed a lot more fun that jail for killing a few kids and their parents lol- not funny at the time.

The time now is around 4pm, 4 hours to go, or so I thought! We get our stuff together and start walking, looking for another place to parks our wary bones. On our quest for serenity we run into a couple whom we talked to in the line at the Sunwing counter. The guys says” hey did you hear the latest' the plane is delayed yet another hour and a half. I said he wasn't funny but low and behold we have now been pushed ahead until 9.30pm instead of our 5pm flight, o joy o bliss!! The cart issue when we arrived seems like a walk in the park lol.

I will spare you the rest of our airport experience only to say that after a couple more delays we took off from Toronto airport at 11.25pm, not the original 5pm and I am not a happy camper to say the least.

End of chapter 2