I'll Be Home for Christmas

So let’s talk about the last two days. I was supposed to leave Malta on Saturday so that I could spend a couple nights in London to catch up with some friends and family before I went home on Monday. My plans were quickly changed when Mother Nature decided to dump snow all over London and cause the airports to shut down. It was a snowstorm like no other, ten whole centimetres. I’m only kidding, I’m not sure how much snow they got in the end but by the time I got to London it all seemed like a huge joke, I didn’t really see what all the fuss was about but perhaps that’s the Canadian in me thinking that a lot of snow is anything over a metre. Anyway let me explain how it all went down. On Saturday, 45 minutes before I was supposed to get the taxi to the airport, I got a text message saying that my flight was cancelled. I frantically looked for another easyjet flight to transfer onto but of course the next one on Sunday was completely booked and the following one on Monday landed at 2:00 in London which was no good for me since my flight to Toronto left at 12:00. Thankfully I was able to find a flight with Air Malta on Sunday that left at 7:50 in the morning. So the next day I woke up bright and early at 4:30 to get to the airport for about 6:00 only to find out that my flight was delayed an hour and a half which I thought was better than it being cancelled altogether. Then I found out that Heathrow airport had shut down for the day and probably would not re-open until 8:00 that evening. At around 8:55 I found out that I could switch onto another flight that was going to Gatwick at 9:30 so I had to run through the airport to switch my flight, go through security again and then get on the plane. We left at 9:40 and needless to say I was a very happy camper to be going to London so that I was at least one step close to getting home. 

So thankful that I didn't get stuck in this

Once landed, everything was fine. I navigated the rail and tube system like a true Londoner and was met by my cousin Jeremey and hung out for the afternoon. Although I didn’t get to meet up with everyone that I had originally planned to (since they were also stuck in their respective cities due to the weather), I was very fortunate to meet up with people from my exchange to go for a nice dinner. Of course I was nervous on Sunday night that my flight on Monday to Toronto would be cancelled since I had heard of so many people having spent 2 (some 5) days in the airport waiting for their flights and was thinking of my back-up plan in case I needed to crash in London for a few more days. I was very lucky that my flight was not cancelled and everything went very smoothly. So now I’m back home and looking forward to doing noth.... writing two papers- yay holidays. I’m not that bitter, I’m still gonna chill out as much as I can. I hope everyone got home safely. I’ll be writing more soon.

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