We're flying to the UK on the 21st for two weeks, sort of excited sort of not. I'm sure it will be better than I am anticipating though

Looking forward to wandering around the shops with a bag of hot roasted chestnuts and hugging my Mum!

They're all still in Tottenham looking for scraps, Iain.

Just staying local and then off to Great Wolf Lodge with the kids for 2 nights before New Year.

We're flying back to the UK on Christmas eve/day.
Drive to Fort Frances, cross the border in International Falls (about 2.5hrs), fly from there to Minneapolis and then we've got a 7hr layover before the overnight flight to Heathrow.
We land there at noon on Christmas Day and then head up to Corby to see my in-laws for a few day and then back down to Kent to see more family & friends.
Fly back on NYE and land back at International Falls at about 9pm in the evening, so by the time we get back home, it'll be 2012.

Looking forward to seeing family but not being back in the UK.

I'm working too!!

Christmas I will be extremely lucky to have my hubby at home (comes back on the 21st) - pre xmas eve party at ours on the 23rd, party at his sisters on the 24th, opening pressies together Xmas day at home then off to m-i-l where all the family congregate for mass pressie opening, alcohol drinking, and game playing and big chrissie dinner.

Can't ask for a more perfect xmas than that

Flying to the UK tomorrow night! Can't bloody wait. I'm going to over-dose on friends, family and London at Christmas. Bring on the mince pies and Xmas telly! OH joins me for his first British Xmas 9 days later.

YVR Club lounge_ large wine in hand heading back for the week then back to v
Van to ski it out

Got a week booked at the Trump (no hair jokes please) International in Chicago. Flying there Xmas day. Hope there's snow, not much sign of any in southwest Manitoba .

I estimate that 18 hours will be in the car over 4 days, and all of that in the UK.

Time to load up the ipod

7hrs lay over? It takes that long to get to the UK from YYZ, hopefully it's worth it for you, because am sure you could have got a direct flight back to blighty?

Not a facebook user either, but always love listening to the reasons given by people that have it as to why they are on there Surely we got by before it came around and still do without having to go on and read people's status

Which reasons are not mundane?

for someone who purports to be a military person, and therefore presumably familiar with mapreading, you show an alarming lack of grasp of geography. What has the flight time from YYZ to do with somebody travelling from Dryden? You do realise, I hope, that Dryden is some 2,000km or nearly 24 hours' drive time from Toronto? A flight from somewhere as small as International Falls (pop: 5800) with a single connection and only 7hrs layover seems a pretty good offer to me.

Ah but one could argue that as the poster lives in Dryden they could drive the extra hour to Thunder Bay and then fly to YYZ and then onto the UK.
If I was a betting man I would say that they chose that route as it was the cheapest.