"Ah, you bought the three day advance ticket. That means it might cost a lot when I change your ticket."
"How much do you think? Not like five grand or something, right?"
"Don't know... Around eight hundred dollars."
"Nice..."

We missed our flight.

It all starts at 5:30am when crazy alarms go off, you don't quite know what's going on but you know that it's the start of a week of excitement, games, people, lots of people, and hopefully lots of fun. You expect with getting up so early, preparing for the trip over the weekend and generally being well planned you'll get there on time but alas no. There's no big story of rush, leaving a passport on a photocopier, bombing through Montreal's streets at ridiculous speeds or anything of the sort, just simple lateness meaning we missed our flight's check-in and are currently buying new tickets. E3, one of the biggest videogame shows in the world and we're grounded in Montreal as we arrived just after check-in closed.

Once we've passed through customs (chatted to a lovely customs lady about scary hills in Scotland), security (got scanned, searched and padded down) and found our way into the gate area it's generally considered time to have breakfast. As LP, producer on Far Cry 2 says, "never eat in an airport". Never a truer word was spoken as the most appetising thing on the menu was a "Mexican omelette pizza". Yeah, pizza. Think peppers, ham, eggs and cheese on a pizza base. So, an omelette on a pizza?

Never eat in an airport.

On our way to get on the plane we start meeting more people from Ubisoft.. More and more.. It's like a chartered Ubisoft jet to Las Angeles as there are people from Prince of Persia, Shaun White Snowboarding, Naruto and Far Cry 2 here. Somehow missing that earlier flight has helped us find a posse to gang together with and we'll even arrive in LA earlier than planned due to no stop-over in Denver. Which is a bit of a shame as I was looking forward to seeing something else which is new.

My first E3 and now I think that pizza-based breakfast is about to make a re-appearance.

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