We flew out on friday 24th at 8.30, after arriving at Heathrow just after 6. Callum was finding the waiting in line very emotional as I think it hit him how much he was leaving behind. We kept promising him that I was on Skype, facebook, yahoo messenger, msn as well as email so it should not be too hard for his computer literate friends to find him. We had five cases, three hand luggage and Callum's booster seat, and luckally Chris had been right about the size of hand luggage.

Our flight out was from gate 31 and we arrived as they said we are now boarding groups with young children, which was brilliant timing. We boarded the 777 and took our places in the middle of the aircraft. Sadly we could not see our of the windows without looking at the wing. When we took off the captain announced we would be flying out over Manchester and Glasgow and then straight over to Toronto in Canada. It took about seven and a half hours and both kids really got to grips with the touch screen televisions on the backs of the seats in-front. Although our little one could have done with the journey being an hour and a half shorter as she started to get really board.

Upon arrival to Canada we were given visa cards to fill in. After leaving the aircraft we queued up at passport control where we handed in our forms. They sent us to Immigration over to the right were we handed all the passports, work visa and study permit papers in. They asked us to take a seat and then an hour later we were called back to desk number 12. The lady handed back our passports and they all have our papers stapled in saying I must leave Canada by 23 Oct 2009. The line "This does not authorize re-entry." is a bit worrying but I assume you leave Canada at your own risk. Then we went down to conver-belt 5 for our bags to find the belt had stopped and our bags were not the only ones left, but luckily all five were there.

We then followed the arrows to customs were we handed in our filled in visa card and followed the arrows for internal canadian flights. Where we met a lady who checked the second part of our tickets and asked us to but our five bags on another conver and then leave though the other door into the departures area. After looking at the list of gates we made our way towards gate no 135. As we had a couple of hours before our flight we stopped for a meal (their lunch time our supper time) and Chris a coffee. It was then I discovered about the tax system in Canada (I will explain in another blog entry).

The flight to Saskatoon took about three hours and our second just went to sleep straight away, which was probably a good thing as we had turbulence almost all the way. Callum discovered that Alvin and the Chipmunks have an album or sound track (something I later wish was not there as he started sining as Alvin). Upon arrival it was very quiet and while waiting for our bags Aidan appeared and kindly helped us with our bags to his car.