Layover, eh?

I am writing this from my layover in Toronto. The flight from Philly to Toronto was good, not too bumpy and fairly short.

I've been in Canada for about an hour and have learned that Canadians are probably the nicest people. Aside from the boarder security person (who I think are required to be less than friendly in every country) my experiences with Canadians have been wonderful. For example, I had a window seat and a disgustingly large/heavy carry on, when we landed the fellow in the isle seat offered to get my bag down and moved his stuff so that I could place my gargantuan bag on the seat. He might have also used the stereotypical "eh" at one point, which made my day.

Adding to my love of Canada is the fact that I have this free wifi access thanks to AirCanada. I don't know if I could have gone the whole layover without some email action, especially since Maite, the lady who has my keys because MariCarmen is in Athens with the AU kids, emailed me today to ask about arrival times. While I totally appreciate that she wants this info to be able to track/organize us, in typical American fashion I wish that she would have done it earlier! Seriously, I checked my email an hour and a half before leaving the house, subtract the time it took me to respond in Español and we're left with about an hour for her to read, understand my now feeble Spanish, and come up with a response. Needless to say, this did not happen. In fact I am still waiting on her response. Hopefully it arrives in the hour and a half I have left on my laptop battery.

The only down side to Canada, so far, is that I can't find an outlet to save my poor little apple. Oh well, I should count myself lucky to have free internet at all!

The next post will be from Madrid!

P.S. I've spotted some pretty awesome Eurotrash hanging out in the airport, which makes me all the more excited to go back to Spain. Any attempt to describe this cultural phenomenon will just fall short; think t-shirts with grafiti, aviator sunglasses and a ridiculous "too cool for school" attitude... I think later on a photo post with explanation will be necessary for this term.