First day in Canada

(Disclaimer: I am writing this after 40 hours of only getting 2 hours sleep, and slightly jet lagged, so please excuse all bad grammar/spelling)

So today/yesterday we left for Canada, waking up at 6:00 (Or 6:20 with Bernard frantically knocking on our door), and had a quick breakfast before catching cabs to the airport. Once there, we began the long process of checking in, getting past security and boarding the flight, all which took us right up to taking off. We quickly found out that this airline (Qantas), does not provide battle tetris, and so much disappointment was had. After getting over this, I watched some great movies, like Shrek 4, Greenzone, Iron man 2 ect. After realising that it was early in the morning Canadian time, I attempted to go to sleep.

Sleeping on planes is an interesting thing. On one hand, there is an incredible amount of noise, which hinders you actually falling asleep. On the other, after successfully dozing off, you will often wake up feeling stiff, dehydrated and incredibly cramped. All of these led to me only getting about 2 hours in total.

After waking up, and watching more TV and movies, we arrived at Los Angeles. The security there was immense, with all of us getting our fingerprints taken and taking our shoes off for the scan. Although this was bad, I was quite excited to be in a foreign country, and this woke me up enough for the next flight.

The actual trip from the US to Canadia is a bit of a blur. I remember dozing off a bit, but managed to mostly keep myself awake for the trip. We then arrived in Canada, went through its security and caught a bus to our hotel.

After dumping our bags, we went to a Canadian restaurant, which served a variety of dishes. I got a Thai red curry, while others got lasaga, burgers and fish and chips. This was quite a nice dinner, but by the end I was immensely tired and ready to go to bed (after writing this blog post).

On a side note, this was the longest Friday the 13th I've ever experienced.