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Day 7 (New York) – The JFK Airport Experience

We began the day by taking a walk around a Central Park finding The Alice in Wonderland Statue for which a group of kids were playing upon and wouldn’t even let one in for a photo!

As one had time to waste before the flight, we decided to simply chill around the lakes until it was time to head to JFK.

It was then that the fiasco began! Check in at JFK didn’t seem to have any record of Superbunny and subsequently were worried that the wheelchair wouldn’t fit on the small plane. As a result, the idea was floated around about potentially having to transfer us to another airport where there was a larger aircraft. Luckily, they managed to sort something out and everything was fine. Now, one would have thought that JFK being one of the busiest airports in the world would be wheelchair accessible. However, there was still steps to get down to the gate resulting in me having to be escorted by security round the back of the airport to get onto the airfield.

The flight took around 50 minutes, however, when Toronto Pearson brought Superbunny up onto the bridge, it seemed not to want to turn on, even after fiddling around with all the cables. After pushing said wheelchair to the terminal, one had the idea of finding a plug socket to see if the battery would charge…

Of course, this failed also! The airport staff were extremely helpful and offered to store the wheelchair until we fly to Chicago on Monday in addition to getting an engineer to look at it. By this time, it was 9pm and our wheelchair accessible taxi driver seemed to have gone hence we decided to jump in a normal taxi given that one only had the manual wheelchair.

Tomorrow, we plan to visit one of Torontos top attractions, the CN Tower.

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