Well Montreal airport is now my least favorite. Tops Denver and Cincinnati and LAX for its horribleness.
The day started off early, up at 4am, at the airport at 5:15, flight left at 6:50. First leg was to Chicago, it was fine. We were a little worried because we had less than an hour to change planes, but we had plenty of time.
2nd leg was to Montreal. First off we de-plane in the middle of nowhere and have to walk a long ways to get to customs, where we stood in line not long then went through to "connection" to get our next flight. We were in good shape because we had 2 hours here, and were looking forward to getting some lunch. Well, at the "connections" gate the guy tells me that I have to go pickup my check back (that i had checked through to fredricton, btw), and re-check it through customs. Well, I go where he told me to go, had to wait about 15 minutes there for my bag, then the customs guy asked me 'why did you forget your bag'?!?!? Then we get the run-around from 4 different people on where I am supposed to take my bag to re-check it. Finallyget that done (thanks secuity guard stranger who finally helped me). By the time we got BACK through security (where they took my $3 water), we had only 20 minutes to get a somewhat stale sandwich and get the plane. (lovely little prop plane, but I did get a nap).
We finally got to Fredricton, and thank goodness it was a a very small airport. Got my bag (yeah!), got the car and go to the hotel, which is nice!
Checked in for the conference. Went to a short reception thing, then came back to the hotel.
I took a short walk along the river, then came back to the room, played a couple games of Fluxx with Matthew and now am getting ready for bed. The time zone (2 hrs ahead) is messing me up, my 6:30am wakeup call will be like 4:30am for me, and since I won't get to sleep til late (I know me in hotels), I will be tired tomororw. This is a pretty place though.
More tomorrow.
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