Ireland; Dublin

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{Friday October 3rd} 

Following a short work day, I headed home to get ready to leave! Mom, dad and my brother Paul came to pick me up, and we left around 4:30p. After enjoying some typical Toronto traffic, we got to the airport shortly before 6p. 

We checked in and received our boarding passes, and proceeded through customs and security. We went through entirely separately, as I have nexus and Paul does not. The lines were fairly reasonable so we met up again around 6:30p. 

We picked up an autumn turkey sandwich - quite delicious, with the exception of one toxic blob of mustard in the middle of mine. While waiting for our plane to begin boarding, Paul discovered that he actually had my boarding pass. Upon further inspection, turns out that I also had his, and we had gone through customs and security with the entirely incorrect boarding passes. Hmm. 

Our plane was late arriving and then the baggage guys took a while to get things loaded (so they claimed..) so it was about 8:30p by the time we actually departed, rather than 7:25p as it was supposed to be. Hopefully our connection waits for us; we actually had a conversation about the impatience of connecting flights on our way the the airport.. Jinxed it. We left behind a rainy 15 degrees in Toronto. 

The flight to Washington was quite choppy (worse than Hamilton roads, choppy) and we were seated in the very back row of the Canadair, which did not help our cause as we arrived behind schedule.

We landed in Washington at about 9:40p, and then needed to wait for our carry on bags which had been stowed. I decided I would go ahead and wait at the gate, while Paul waited and got our bags. We ended up boarding our flight around 10:15, and just got nicely seated before we pulled back for take-off!

J. 
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