Day 1

Just after security in the Victoria Airport there is a little café. Apparently they serve hot dogs. The poster advertising this is rather frightening. It seems that if you are an awkward pre-teen the hot dogs will make you very, very happy. It should not be this way.

We left Victoria on the first flight of the day to Toronto. The flight was uneventful, thankfully. We had a 6 hour layover in Toronto which allowed us to leave the airport and visit Tony’s aunt , uncle, cousins, and his cousins’ children. Rosemary had a great time playing with her second cousins and managed to get covered in strawberry juice and chalk (no, she was not eating the chalk). We had a wonderful dinner and the family had the opportunity to reminisce about years gone by.

We breezed through security back at the Toronto Airport and had far to much time sitting around waiting for our next flight.

The flight from Toronto to Dublin was 6.5 hours. Thankfully Rosemary slept for the first 4 hours of the flight and I was able actually enjoy Air Canada’s great AVOD in-flight entertainment and have a couple of glasses of wine (they actually brought the drink cart around twice!). The meal was not quite what I was expecting. I had requested a vegetarian meal and I was given an “Asian vegetarian” meal. The entrée was an Indian dish served with rice. As it was airline food, I was a little scared of it at first (I was referring to it as “Splaat Galoo”), but it was edible. The bean salad on the other hand was a little frightening. It reminded me of something I was served in a hospital meal once, but much, much worse. Unfortunately vegetarians do not like normal desserts because instead of the chocolate mousse everyone else was served, this meal contained a nasty little kid’s lunch fruit salad.