Exhaustion plus hassle = suck
I am very glad to be back in the states. Let me just lay that out there. BUT - today was a sucky travel day. I decided to have some fun on my last night in Toronto, so I made plans with some of the girls to do dinner and a night out on Sunday!
I met up with Anne, Emily, Pamela, and Triana, and we decided to hit up "The Keg". Now to me, The Keg is the karaoke bar in Evanston, IL that you tried to get into with your fake ID as a Northwestern student. In Canada though, it's a lovely steakhouse! The five of us had a fabulous dinner and some fun girl talk, and wished Triana luck, since she was a temporary hire and is done for now. It was delicious and luxurious, and then we continued the night walking through downtown Toronto. It just so happened that the Much Music Video Awards were last night, which are like the MTV Video Awards of Canada. Because of that, there were tons of people around, trying to get into clubs because they thought celebs might be in them. The streets were filled with temporary stages for performances, and the garbage left behind. It was an exciting atmosphere!
Emily, Triana, and I headed to The Hideout, where there was a live performance. A few weeks ago when Emily and Jason and I were in Niagara, we saw a guy play at the restaurant we happened to be eating at. Emily thought he was awesome, and had a teensy crush on him. Over the past week she's been online stalking him, and figured out that he was coincidentally playing IN Toronto on our last night. And she figured she'd "accidentally" bump into him at the bar, and they'd fall madly in love. Of course when we got there he'd shaved his goatee, and was looking far less cute than she remembered, and the band was so loud it was bad. We stayed for a bit, until the band blew a fuse and we were mercifully saved. We had a great time, but at 2am it was time to start packing.
Of course I packed all night, finally heading to bed around 5am. I got up at 8am to get ready and finish the last of my packing, said goodbye to THE BEST APARTMENT EVER, and headed to the airport. When I got there, two hours early for my flight, I was told that I was on standby. Apparently Air Canada (bastards) always overbook their international flights. I had tried to check in on line last night, but since the company booked my flight I didn't have enough info. I was put on hold while they waited to see who would show up, and told to request a seat assignment at the gate. I headed there, but on the way ran into Maroon 5! They were on their way back to New York after the Much Music Awards! Adam Levine was cute, but shorter than I had guessed, and pretty tiny. One of our ballerinas, Janice, said "hi Adam!". He said hi back, and looked confused for a while. Hilarious.
When I got to the gate, I had to wait awhile, but they eventually gave me a seat assignment. Next to a 400-lb man. Now I love big people, and I wouldn't ever want anyone to change. BUT - this was one of our techies who'd been loading out the show for the past 24 hours. They get no sleep, and they're doing manual labor. They are gross and stinky!! This guy carried his own seat belt extender, and seriously, was in need of another seat. Instead we cuddled for an hour. What fun. And, right before we took off I heard some garbled message about standby passengers, and I knew things would end badly.
As soon as we arrived I was paged, with two other guys from the show who were also on standby, and we were told that our luggage was still in Canada. It was supposed to come in at 5pm, and they'd "do their best" to get it to us. It is now 12:30 and I've been calling to check... apparently "the deliver company will be there between 1am and 3am." WHAT?! Plus, my room is crap. I can't even tell you how much I'm paying to live on Pennsylvania Ave in an old, ugly, dirty hotel room. I worked all day to remedy this situation, house hunting, etc, but with no real solution yet. We'll see what happens, but for now I'm too tired to deal with it!!! Hopefully things will look better in the morning.
P.S. I did get to walk around DC this afternoon - and it's GORGEOUS!! Seriously so cute and pretty and I love it!
I met up with Anne, Emily, Pamela, and Triana, and we decided to hit up "The Keg". Now to me, The Keg is the karaoke bar in Evanston, IL that you tried to get into with your fake ID as a Northwestern student. In Canada though, it's a lovely steakhouse! The five of us had a fabulous dinner and some fun girl talk, and wished Triana luck, since she was a temporary hire and is done for now. It was delicious and luxurious, and then we continued the night walking through downtown Toronto. It just so happened that the Much Music Video Awards were last night, which are like the MTV Video Awards of Canada. Because of that, there were tons of people around, trying to get into clubs because they thought celebs might be in them. The streets were filled with temporary stages for performances, and the garbage left behind. It was an exciting atmosphere!
Emily, Triana, and I headed to The Hideout, where there was a live performance. A few weeks ago when Emily and Jason and I were in Niagara, we saw a guy play at the restaurant we happened to be eating at. Emily thought he was awesome, and had a teensy crush on him. Over the past week she's been online stalking him, and figured out that he was coincidentally playing IN Toronto on our last night. And she figured she'd "accidentally" bump into him at the bar, and they'd fall madly in love. Of course when we got there he'd shaved his goatee, and was looking far less cute than she remembered, and the band was so loud it was bad. We stayed for a bit, until the band blew a fuse and we were mercifully saved. We had a great time, but at 2am it was time to start packing.
Of course I packed all night, finally heading to bed around 5am. I got up at 8am to get ready and finish the last of my packing, said goodbye to THE BEST APARTMENT EVER, and headed to the airport. When I got there, two hours early for my flight, I was told that I was on standby. Apparently Air Canada (bastards) always overbook their international flights. I had tried to check in on line last night, but since the company booked my flight I didn't have enough info. I was put on hold while they waited to see who would show up, and told to request a seat assignment at the gate. I headed there, but on the way ran into Maroon 5! They were on their way back to New York after the Much Music Awards! Adam Levine was cute, but shorter than I had guessed, and pretty tiny. One of our ballerinas, Janice, said "hi Adam!". He said hi back, and looked confused for a while. Hilarious.
When I got to the gate, I had to wait awhile, but they eventually gave me a seat assignment. Next to a 400-lb man. Now I love big people, and I wouldn't ever want anyone to change. BUT - this was one of our techies who'd been loading out the show for the past 24 hours. They get no sleep, and they're doing manual labor. They are gross and stinky!! This guy carried his own seat belt extender, and seriously, was in need of another seat. Instead we cuddled for an hour. What fun. And, right before we took off I heard some garbled message about standby passengers, and I knew things would end badly.
As soon as we arrived I was paged, with two other guys from the show who were also on standby, and we were told that our luggage was still in Canada. It was supposed to come in at 5pm, and they'd "do their best" to get it to us. It is now 12:30 and I've been calling to check... apparently "the deliver company will be there between 1am and 3am." WHAT?! Plus, my room is crap. I can't even tell you how much I'm paying to live on Pennsylvania Ave in an old, ugly, dirty hotel room. I worked all day to remedy this situation, house hunting, etc, but with no real solution yet. We'll see what happens, but for now I'm too tired to deal with it!!! Hopefully things will look better in the morning.
P.S. I did get to walk around DC this afternoon - and it's GORGEOUS!! Seriously so cute and pretty and I love it!
posted by Beth at 9:11 PM
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