Arriving in Canada

Our first flight was at 06:00 AM [AU CST] to Sydney. We discovered when checking in that we all weren’t actually sitting together from Sydney to Toronto [19 hours]. Daryl and I had seats together and Yvonne was 5 rows up and in the middle rows of the plane. We were told that the flight was completely booked out and that our best bet was to ask the flight attendants if someone was willing to switch seats with Yvonne. Yvonne did not sit with us – she managed to get a window seat :)
After 26 hours of travel, we finally arrived in Ottawa at 18:10 [CDN EST] on 26th June 2009. We travelled back in time ;)

My family was there to pick us up...


...but apparently 4 of our 5 cases were still in Toronto. Only the presents arrived.
To make a long story short – I called Air Canada a few times and yelled like the American that I am not. They assured me that our luggage would be on the next flight. We didn’t see our bags until midnight and Yvonne didn’t get hers until the next day.
So we made our first trip to Walmart. Daryl and Yvonne had a great time!