After a great, festive, and “being-the-centre-of-attention” event with the family and friends in Orillia, Tlell and are off to Ottawa via Via Rail. To catch our 9:30am train at Union Station in Toronto, we had an amazing limo driver (yup, a limo) who strategically battled the rainy-morning Toronto commute (diving in and out of the highway and calmly waving thanks to people who we budded in front of).

It’s been several years since I have taken the 4 1/2 hour long train ride between Ottawa and Toronto, and this time I was really stoked about using their Wi-Fi connection to do all my Internet-related activities.

$8.95 plus taxes later, I was only able to read 1 newspaper article and the subject line of a few emails.

Yes, Internet connection was extremely slow. Who knows what the problem was (if it was me or them). At every stop however, download speeds seemed to pick up (picture me whipping out the laptop and cursing every time the train started to leave the station).

ASIDE FROM THAT, the train ride was pretty smooth (comfy seats, great scenery, and interesting voyeurism views of people’s backyards).