With warnings that a very bad storm was approaching I was hoping that I’d take off before it arrived but as you can guess that wasn’t quite what happened. We were boarded okay and then started the pullout. It certainly felt as if we were moving but each time I looked out we were in the same spot! The strong winds had started and we rocking the plane so hard that we’d become jammed against the tug pulling us out! Finally the tug gave us up and we headed down the runway. It was certainly a very testing take off as we were just being blown all over the place but eventually we made it into more settled air and we were on our way.
The flight was just under 9 hours and was fine unfortunately the same couldn’t be said about passport control! We queued for two hours to get passports stamped and entry into the USA! Amazingly no one ‘jacked up’! Justin was there to meet me which was great. The cold hit you as we left the airport, in fact it was hard to breathe, the pilot told us it was minus 12!!
I woke early on Christmas Eve and ventured out for breakfast. The cold was overwhelming - I later found out that it was minus 19!! As I was having breakfast the snow started to fall. Talking of breakfast I’d forgotten how large the meals are! I’d ordered Eggs Benedict but I received enough food to keep me going until the evening!
View from room
The flight was just under 9 hours and was fine unfortunately the same couldn’t be said about passport control! We queued for two hours to get passports stamped and entry into the USA! Amazingly no one ‘jacked up’! Justin was there to meet me which was great. The cold hit you as we left the airport, in fact it was hard to breathe, the pilot told us it was minus 12!!
I woke early on Christmas Eve and ventured out for breakfast. The cold was overwhelming - I later found out that it was minus 19!! As I was having breakfast the snow started to fall. Talking of breakfast I’d forgotten how large the meals are! I’d ordered Eggs Benedict but I received enough food to keep me going until the evening!
View from room
I walked around until the cold drove me back to the hotel but in the early afternoon I headed out to the railway station to catch up with Justin, Lauren and her family. It was a 45minute train ride and as we moved away from the city the snow became deeper. After a short drive we arrived at Lauren’s family home where I was greeted by her mum, dad, sister and three dogs. We had a lovely evening with delicious food and lots of talking. The interesting part was that coyotes and wolves pass through their garden at night!
It had snowed a little during the night so I got my white Christmas! Lauren’s family don’t celebrate Christmas as we do, I think that thanksgiving is more important, so we followed their tradition and went to the movies. We saw the Hobbit which was really good.
Lauren drove us back into the city and we met for dinner. We went to a really good steak house and had some great steak. Snow was pelting down as we left the restaurant.
Boxing day morning Justin, Lauren and I visited the Science museum - it was one of the best museums I’ve visited. In the afternoon I walked down to the Navy Pier. It wasn’t that exciting but the walk did me good.
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