It takes a long time to de-ice a plane

We had a very early start today as we got up at 4am. It was snowing so the plane had to be de-iced (just like a car but it takes a lot longer!). The flight out of Toronto was 1 hour and 15 minutes late due to de-icing. Once we got through the clouds we had beautiful blue skies all the way to Barabados. We could feel it getting warmer and could see some of the Caribbean islands en route. There was a very long immigration line in Barbados and the airport is being refurnished. We got a taxi to Adulo Apartments which was very cheap (only $86 for 2 nights). We thought we’d struck lucky when we found this great looking yet cheap apartment on the internet, but when we arrived we realised the best thing about it was the photographer that took the pictures for the website. Still, it was fine and the landlady was helpful and friendly. We got a bus into Bridgetown. We had planned to walk around the city tomorrow, but it’s a very small capital city so it didn’t take long to walk around and we saw all we wanted to in one evening. Parliament, the oldest in the Caribbean (1639), was lit up due to the independence celebrations. We watched a dance off competition outside parliament and then had dinner in the Waterfront Café, it had a nice location but was a bit pricey.