Leaving Beautiful Waterloo =(

I had breakfast at the hotel again today. The great food!! =)) A great way to start the day. Too bad I have to leave so soon. I've only been here for only one full day! We got onto the car and was on our way to Toronto Airport at 9.40am. On the way we stopped for a quick dim sum lunch (this one is authentic, too) and went straight to the airport.

AGAIN when it comes to airports I have nothing good to say. ( I kinda feel like Shin Jung commenting on NEWS ) Firstly their system is not good. Inefficient! First we tried to check in our luggage at row H. Then they asked for our boarding passes, we told them we hadnt collected them yet. So they directed us to row G to check in our luggage or the machines to collect our boarding passes. We chose the latter one and it was a huge mistake. The machine asked for our address in Michigan (the state we're going) and other mundane information. Irritating. We managed to settle that part with some effort.

So now we went back to row G. They weighed our luggages but did not check them in. Weird. Then they said, u need to go through immigration office, go behind the counter and into the immigration office. So we did as we were told, filled in the neccessary forms and went for immigration. After spending 15 minutes there, we finally got to check in our luggages.

FINALLY when we got into the check in area, we started to locate our gate. 286. We saw a sign: "200 - 299" with an arrow pointing down an escalator. So we went. When we reached the lower level we saw this horrendous sign. "Passengers going to gate 200 - 299, please wait for the shuttle bus to bring u there". I got a shock. It felt as if they were saying: " Your gate is in Terminal 3 but please check in in Terminal 1 and we'll send a bus to bring u here.". Argh. What a mess. Luckily there was a bus waiting and we quickly got on. The bus ride took forever man. Like 15 minutes! In the end it was a container terminal. We literally waited in a container.

NOW we are finally at where we're supposed to be at. How long-winded. The path from the gate to the plane wasnt fully sheltered. Perhaps its because the flight was a less important one (quite short, about 1hr 20minutes), so they gave us the faraway gate.

We landed in Detroit very soon. A car was waiting to pick us up from the airport to send us to our hotel, Campus Inn at Ann Arbor in Michigan, 45 minutes away. We checked in and explored the area around. Its really a campus town. University of Michigan (UM in short) is at the centre of the town. All around it are cafes, bookshops, UM apparel shops. One thing about American Universities : They have all sorts of merchandise, so many that there are several shops set up just to sell them. ( more than ours in acjc lehx, darren! =(( They own us like nothing. )
Of course, there are antique shops and boutiques and other weird shops. There was one selling India's incense and fashion too.

We settled dinner at a corner restaurant called Pottebelly and they have good sandwiches. I shared one with my dad. I guess the travelling and the hectic airport made us lose our appetite. So back to hotel for us and that's another day well spent.