Summer Trip Travelog: Departure

If you're a procrastinator, you would know how much things could pile up until the very last minute. Well, that happened on the day that I had to fly out of Ottawa. The night before, I had yet to clean up my room and house, fill in the tax forms and pack up my stuff!

I was in a super rush that night, I barely managed to get a wink of sleep. T_T

We managed to arrive at the airport two hours before our flight and of course, nothing went smoothly for the last minute packer (read: me). My luggage was over the weight limit by 5 kilos and obviously, I had to take out some of my stuff and put them somewhere else (leaving them was not an option at that time). Lucky for me, my travel buddies did not carry as much junk and therefore, I managed to sneak in some of my stuff into their luggage. :P

After that, we were scolded by the officer in charged because we had not check in even though our flight was leaving in an hour time. In our defense, we were waiting for some of our friends to arrive but the officer could not care any less about that. (Our friends did make it just in time and we hugged them goodbye for the very last time.)

We then ran towards the departure gate only to find out that our flight was delayed.

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In our flight, we were given a choice of cookies, peanuts or pretzels because it was a short-haul flight, only two hours long.

By the time we arrived at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, the first thing we looked for was a restaurant. Obviously, finding a Halal restaurant was pretty much impossible and the only option we had was seafood or vegetarian meal. In the end, we decided to have our lunch at Chili's because my friend wanted to eat rice (the decisive point).

After halving our orders, the amount of rice I got was pretty generous I would say! Hmm...

 

Being cheapskates, we shared a bottomless drink and shamelessly asked for multiple refills after that. :P

For dinner, we indulged in fried goods: Popeyes. Sadly, this franchise did not have Halal chicken and so we had shrimp popcorn. Much to our surprise (ehem), it was nice and much more filling compared to the salmon meal we had for lunch.

The airport was huge and despite having long transit hours, I found it to be pretty bearable. There were plenty of things to do and look at and therefore, we managed to kill our time wisely (read: utilising free wifi provided by the airport).

Underground Light Tunnel in the airport. Do notice that my backpack is bigger than myself. Heh.

At around 9:30 pm, we boarded the plane heading to London. :)

Photo credits: my camera and @ezzaahhh