stuck in the airport!

Well, the first part of the trip home was ok. Weather is fine in Boston, not bad here in Halifax (sunny but a tad windy), but apparently it's a crazy, crazy snowstorm back home. In like a lion, out like a lamb, my ass. I've been fortunate enough to find this internet cafe place here, where you can use the computer all you want with a single purchase (I love this airport, seriously. Even though it's smaller than Boston, Toronto, Montréal, etc., it has so much more to do!), and I tracked down the phone numbers for the 2 people I know here. Interesting sidenote, they're twin sisters, heh. I left a message on both their machines, as I presume they're working, so hopefully they'll get back to me. I can kill time here until supper time, as it's 12:30ish here now, but it'd be nice to not have to pay for a hotel tonight. 'Cause oh yeah, if the flight's delayed / cancelled due to weather? No comping for a hotel / travel, etc. Boo-urns.

I would've changed flights from Boston to avoid this, but to do that you need to purchase / upgrade your ticket, and to do that would cost me more than my entire trip. It would've more than doubled my travel costs, which sucks. It'd be much more fun to spend this free time with everyoung than scrambling to find numbers for people I don't even know will want to come get me. :/

Also, while we're doing the whole bad news thing, we weren't able to meet with beanarie yesterday, which breaks my heart a little. It's not anyone's fault though, she's just sick (and getting better I hope omg) but it still sucked.

Other than that, wow. What a weekend! Friday seemed like the longest. Day. Ever. But when it's spend with good company such as everyoung then it's totally awesome. We hung out, explored the city and saw V for Vendetta which is awesome. Earlier we had supper and were at this cool comic store, where I bought the Penny Arcade comic strip collection and a t-shirt for my sister. There were many other stores that we saw too, I almost bought shoes, and I'm sure there's much more that happened that day but I seriously can't remember. As I had to check into the airport the night before my flight, I didn't sleep at all until a short nap on Friday afternoon. I was so tired and in a new country and meeting Sara for the first time and it was crazy. Awesome, but crazy!

Saturday we spent all afternoon at this science museum, including a Star Wars exhibit. Very awesome, and I did not slaughter any Jawas, no matter what Sara says! not intentionally anyway. And then we saw the hockey game, which was so, so awesome. The Bruins won! :D! They may not make the playoffs, but I appreciated the good show while I was in the city. It was nice and close too, so both of us enjoyed it I believe. And the French Canadian guys behind us made it so much better! <inside-joke>PJ STOCK WE MISS YOU!</inside-joke>

Sunday was the day we were going to meet JM, but she was too sick to travel unfortunately. :/ We still went on and saw Harvard and stuff, which was very nice. Lots to see there, and the Harvard Natural History Museum was cool. So many animals and these glass flowers and everything! Whales hanging from the ceiling! Go Habs go! Then we saw Thank You For Smoking which rocks. Seriously, it's so very awesome. I also saw Three Kings, Equilibrium and Bend It Like Beckham with Sara, all new to me. A very film filled weekend!

Had to get up super duper early today, though for awhile neither of us wanted to. XD Eventually we got to the airport and even though I figured I'd be stuck here, here I am. It's the cheapest way really, a huge price difference, so that's all I can do. Ah well, it was a fun weekend anyway. I was very sad to go, I hate leaving people at airports. So sad. I may have had a little something in my eye, shhh. But yes, that about sums it all up I think. Right now I'm hoping to hear back from people, I have numbers but no return calls yet. I should probably go and get some food or something, I've been hogging this terminal for almost two hours now. Not bad for the price of a small chocolate milk! XD

Hopefully I'll get home again soon, looks like the eta is tomorrow afternoon sometime, if everything goes well. Until then, hope everyone else had a good weekend and talk to you all soon! ^_^

Also! Mad props to everyoung for all she did for me. Seriously, coolest American ever doesn't even cover it. You are the most amazing person ever, seriously. ♥♥♥♥♥

And a shout out to bunnytough! :D :D :D

stuck in the airport!

Well, the first part of the trip home was ok. Weather is fine in Boston, not bad here in Halifax (sunny but a tad windy), but apparently it's a crazy, crazy snowstorm back home. In like a lion, out like a lamb, my ass. I've been fortunate enough to find this internet cafe place here, where you can use the computer all you want with a single purchase (I love this airport, seriously. Even though it's smaller than Boston, Toronto, Montréal, etc., it has so much more to do!), and I tracked down the phone numbers for the 2 people I know here. Interesting sidenote, they're twin sisters, heh. I left a message on both their machines, as I presume they're working, so hopefully they'll get back to me. I can kill time here until supper time, as it's 12:30ish here now, but it'd be nice to not have to pay for a hotel tonight. 'Cause oh yeah, if the flight's delayed / cancelled due to weather? No comping for a hotel / travel, etc. Boo-urns.

I would've changed flights from Boston to avoid this, but to do that you need to purchase / upgrade your ticket, and to do that would cost me more than my entire trip. It would've more than doubled my travel costs, which sucks. It'd be much more fun to spend this free time with everyoung than scrambling to find numbers for people I don't even know will want to come get me. :/

Also, while we're doing the whole bad news thing, we weren't able to meet with beanarie yesterday, which breaks my heart a little. It's not anyone's fault though, she's just sick (and getting better I hope omg) but it still sucked.

Other than that, wow. What a weekend! Friday seemed like the longest. Day. Ever. But when it's spend with good company such as everyoung then it's totally awesome. We hung out, explored the city and saw V for Vendetta which is awesome. Earlier we had supper and were at this cool comic store, where I bought the Penny Arcade comic strip collection and a t-shirt for my sister. There were many other stores that we saw too, I almost bought shoes, and I'm sure there's much more that happened that day but I seriously can't remember. As I had to check into the airport the night before my flight, I didn't sleep at all until a short nap on Friday afternoon. I was so tired and in a new country and meeting Sara for the first time and it was crazy. Awesome, but crazy!

Saturday we spent all afternoon at this science museum, including a Star Wars exhibit. Very awesome, and I did not slaughter any Jawas, no matter what Sara says! not intentionally anyway. And then we saw the hockey game, which was so, so awesome. The Bruins won! :D! They may not make the playoffs, but I appreciated the good show while I was in the city. It was nice and close too, so both of us enjoyed it I believe. And the French Canadian guys behind us made it so much better! <inside-joke>PJ STOCK WE MISS YOU!</inside-joke>

Sunday was the day we were going to meet JM, but she was too sick to travel unfortunately. :/ We still went on and saw Harvard and stuff, which was very nice. Lots to see there, and the Harvard Natural History Museum was cool. So many animals and these glass flowers and everything! Whales hanging from the ceiling! Go Habs go! Then we saw Thank You For Smoking which rocks. Seriously, it's so very awesome. I also saw Three Kings, Equilibrium and Bend It Like Beckham with Sara, all new to me. A very film filled weekend!

Had to get up super duper early today, though for awhile neither of us wanted to. XD Eventually we got to the airport and even though I figured I'd be stuck here, here I am. It's the cheapest way really, a huge price difference, so that's all I can do. Ah well, it was a fun weekend anyway. I was very sad to go, I hate leaving people at airports. So sad. I may have had a little something in my eye, shhh. But yes, that about sums it all up I think. Right now I'm hoping to hear back from people, I have numbers but no return calls yet. I should probably go and get some food or something, I've been hogging this terminal for almost two hours now. Not bad for the price of a small chocolate milk! XD

Hopefully I'll get home again soon, looks like the eta is tomorrow afternoon sometime, if everything goes well. Until then, hope everyone else had a good weekend and talk to you all soon! ^_^

Also! Mad props to everyoung for all she did for me. Seriously, coolest American ever doesn't even cover it. You are the most amazing person ever, seriously. ♥♥♥♥♥

And a shout out to bunnytough! :D :D :D