Jaygirl20:
Oh yeahh! I just sprinkled salt on mine and ate away with the sausage and potatoes .. What province are you?

Right under my nose

ladymarshall:
@ifeoma77 Nwayinoma!!! The queen has arrived!!! Beautiful first days of landing! Chief minister of enjoyment!!! You're my chop-life spirit animal!!!! My jaiye jaiye doppelganger!!! I had some landing vac ideas, you just gave me new ones. Congrats again and I wish you the very best in Canada. I have no doubt in my mind that you will integrate successfully and prosper.

We should plan a joint vac together someday, maybe sneak away from work during those short public holidays roll-over weekends You seem fun to hang out with. I'll write you

cc @Stencil let's do this too

Ifeoma77:
Settling in
My original plan was to spend a couple of weeks in the US with family and then do a road trip into Canada but OVO had other plans.
So instead, my people came to Toronto and I've been enjoying myself since.
With a US driver's license, you can rent a car in Canada, so that's what we did. We've taken long drives to most of the cities in the GTA and beyond. Stopping at random places of interest, eating great food and just decompressing.
I opened checking and savings accounts with TD Bank and got a credit card with 2k limit. Free unlimited banking for six months.
Got a virgin line, 4gigs, LTE with phone at $55/month.


So that's basically it my people...I don port o

ladymarshall:
@ifeoma77 Nwayinoma!!! The queen has arrived!!! Beautiful first days of landing! Chief minister of enjoyment!!! You're my chop-life spirit animal!!!! My jaiye jaiye doppelganger!!! I had some landing vac ideas, you just gave me new ones. Congrats again and I wish you the very best in Canada. I have no doubt in my mind that you will integrate successfully and prosper.

We should plan a joint vac together someday, maybe sneak away from work during those short public holidays roll-over weekends You seem fun to hang out with. I'll write you

cc @Stencil let's do this too

raphrulz:
Right under my nose

Topsmamen:


Lol. See plans. As a fellow enjoyment officer, make una no commot me for setting o. I'll just be a phone call 4-hour drive away.

joo2018:
LANDING GIST

"...the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry..." - Robert Burns

onyexx:


Thanks for this advice...pls what province are you in?

voguemum:


The bolded cracked me up.....your son is my Lo's double ganga lol. I can definitely picture him doing the same thing. LMAO at immigration officers rushing out in full attack. May canny favour you and yours and I'm sure your soon to birth baby is already praying and blessing mummy and daddy for taking him/her to Canada for his/her grand arrival. Safe delivery dear and thanks for sharing. Landing gist brings life back to the thread

joo2018:
LANDING GIST II


DEPARTURE AND ARRIVAL

@Misi16, I now know you and hubby. Your hubby and I reconnected at Addis Ababa.

@Ifeoma77, if you landed on Tuesday morning June 18, we were on the same flight ADD to YYZ. We must connect here somehow.

joo2018:
LANDING GIST II



SMALL WORLD

@Misi16, I now know you and hubby. Your hubby and I reconnected at Addis Ababa.

@Ifeoma77, if you landed on Tuesday morning June 18, we were on the same flight ADD to YYZ. We must connect here somehow.

Not accepted oooo... u went to modify your previous comment

ladymarshall:
My sincere apologies prof

joo2018:
LANDING GIST II


DEPARTURE AND ARRIVAL

By flight day, missus and I were already frazzled and I can say I was functioning on autopilot till we landed. Nobody even remembered to take pictures.

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SMALL WORLD

@Misi.16, I now know you and hubby. Your hubby and I reconnected at Addis Ababa.

@Ifeoma.77, if you landed on Tuesday morning June 18, we were on the same flight ADD to YYZ. We must connect here somehow.

Lummie01:
Sent a PM

Adunnee:
Ifeoma77, Ladymarshall, Stencil, Ralphrulz, Topsmamen

I am watching y'all in 5D! Kontinu

Ifeoma77:
Landing Gist
I practically worked till the last day so my packing was stressful and inefficient. All my bags were overweight and I had an extra bag even after shedding as much as I possibly could.
I was feeling like a gangster so I told my family to finish the goodbyes at home and then my dad dropped me off at the airport and took off for work...

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Landing was smooth. Immigration line was very short and I got stamped in faster than light. No need to even go and sit anywhere to wait for COPR to be prepared, while standing there, the officer just went bam bam bam, welcome to Canada, next!
I got my SIN at the airport, went to pick my plenty bags and sashayed into the maple land.

joo2018:
LANDING GIST II


DEPARTURE AND ARRIVAL

By flight day, missus and I were already frazzled and I can say I was functioning on autopilot till we landed. Nobody even remembered to take pictures.

Got to airport around 10am and then it was security check, food stuffs check, bags check in and boarding pass, immigration check 2x, customs check 2x, Ethiopian Airlines check (too much wahala for naija). Then waiting for the flight while dealing with 2 running kids.

Land at ADD. Wait for next next flight while dealing with increasingly frustrated kids.

Flight again. Long, long flight. Filled declaration card on the plane.

Flight itself was cool. Spent long parts of the flights carrying baby Joo up and down the planes. If anyone on the flights saw a family dealing with 3 sons, that was us.

At immigrations in Toronto, there's the visitor's side and the PR/citizens. Most people on the flight were PR/citizens and so went to their line. In our stressed state, we simply followed them.

At the end of the line, we had to go back to the visitor's side and be on the queue again.

It was the usual questions. We then went to another side where our CoPR was treated. Met the "Welcome to Canada people". Did our SIN. Went to pick our bags. Our bags were the last ones there.

Went to customs. Didn't fill goods to follow before hand with all the stress. The lady asked which goods are coming. I said books and some games. She said, books. Asked, Are you sure that is all. Asked like 3x.

Then got a taxi to take us to our Airbnb.

POST LANDING

I'm still decompressing. Things have been moving in a dream like state. I'm almost there.

Registered with ACCESS for a 4 wks program. Opened accounts with BMO. Got a FIDO line. Got a PRESTO card.

Still house hunting. Don't yet know how to celebrate our first Canada Day.

Now I understand why people first stay with family/friends or go to to Edmonton or Calgary where there's more support. It's been an adventure.

All's good. I'm happy to be finally home.

SMALL WORLD

@Misi16, I now know you and hubby. Your hubby and I reconnected at Addis Ababa.

@Ifeoma77, if you landed on Tuesday morning June 18, we were on the same flight ADD to YYZ. We must connect here somehow.

19CannyMum:
@ifeoma.77 welcome! Sorry about your travails at the airport.

ladymarshall:
@ifeom.a77 Nwayinoma!!! The queen has arrived!!! Beautiful first days of landing! Chief minister of enjoyment!!! You're my chop-life spirit animal!!!! My jaiye jaiye doppelganger!!! I had some landing vac ideas, you just gave me new ones. Congrats again and I wish you the very best in Canada. I have no doubt in my mind that you will integrate successfully and prosper.

We should plan a joint vac together someday, maybe sneak away from work during those short public holidays roll-over weekends You seem fun to hang out with. I'll write you

cc @Stenc.il let's do this too

Vicolak:
Congrats, thank God for safe trip. We are inspired not to give up.

raphrulz:
Not accepted oooo... u went to modify your previous comment

joo2018:
LANDING GIST II


DEPARTURE AND ARRIVAL


All's good. I'm happy to be finally home.

raphrulz:
Congratulations to you Ifeoma.

Go and prosper

God bless!

Ifeoma77:


Yayyyyy welcome home!!
I totally agree on the hand luggage thing. Part of the repacking involved buying the smallest GMG and putting my overnight bag in it along with some shoes so I had two hand luggages and a handbag (this was done on the advice of the ET staff).
In ADD, the handle of the gmg ripped off. I reattached the overnight bag to the carry-on luggage and then bought a backpack in the airport for 96USD
I've kuku dashed the bag out because every time I see it, I get chest pain