we have survived moosageddon!

so, for all of you over in sunny Australia - ha ha ha.... are you missing out or what?
We now know what it feels like to go shopping when the max. temperature was at -9 (not including the wind chill factor). And just a hint for the happy campers...... when it is that cold, don't make snowballs without gloves on!!!

So the trip so far goes like this. We sat in Perth Airport for a while, waiting. (Thanks Josie, Kevin, Michael and Adam for keeping us company.) Then, we sat on an airplane and waited to get to Singapore. At Singapore airport we wandered around for about 1 1/2 hours, waiting for our next plane. Ash got a little excitement. She got to pretend she was Sora in Kingdom Hearts and hang out with Goofy and Donald. Then, onto another plane and waiting until we get to Hong Kong where we ..... waited for another plane.

Luckily though, we had a bit more time. So we changed $40.00 for some lunch. (Unfortunately we slept while we were waiting on the plane and had missed the meals between Perth and now!) After getting to the cafe to eat lunch, we managed to spend 60c more than we had changed. So we had to give one bottle of water back. And then we could eat our lunch. We got to eat it watching Chinese soap operas on the cafe booth t.v. set. We had the best time. The words were in Chinese, the subtitles were in another Chinese (?) and so we made our own words up as we went along. Of course it goes without saying that Ash and I had far more romantic words than Alf did. It was funny to see us being looked at by all the Chinese people, specially since we were the only ones in the airport for a while that didn't look and sound like everyone else. Then after a waiting snooze by Alf and Ash (with Jussie on bag duties) we boarded another plane and waited for another 14 hours to get to Toronto. Until you do it, I don't think you can ever know how BORING sitting still for 14 hours really is. Mind you we all slept alot since there wasn't much else to do.

When we finally got to Toronto we had to ... you guesssed it - WAIT some more. But for a good reason I guess. They had to get the lady behind us off the plane for medical attention so we all had to sit until the medical guys had come in with there special emergency rescue stuff and american sounding voices to take her off very efficiently and all.

and then we were there in all the snow and cold. So our first day was spent buying warmer clothes. By the way Excelsior people, our school jacket is nearly warm enough for -12. It works 'ok' at -8 and hopefully is perfect at 0. No wonder we sometimes got very hot wearing it on duty.