First hurdle.............

Hi folks
We are at Toronto airport. We have checked our luggage but had some issues. Our checked baggage was all under weight and the attendant sent it through before checking our carry on luggage. We needed to do some rearranging because our carry on luggage was at the max............it would have been easy to take stuff from our carry on and place it in our checked luggage but it was already sent  into "space".

The attendant told us to rearrange items so we basically stuffed my backpack into John's backpack. We had read the rules carfully and thought we were ok with one business bag and one personal bag each. Our interpretation of a personal bag was incorrect. After rearranging we had the same amount of stuff just all in one backpack. Instead of two skinny backpacks we had one over stuffed backpack but it looked like less than before. We then went through customs and waited in the "holding tank" for our flight. While waiting we noticed that other people had 4 carry on bags exactly the same size as our bags. We assume they had a different attendant with a different perspective. Anyway we have 2 business bags and one over stuffed backpack so it is easy to manage........all is well that ends well.
Our checked luggage goes directly to Nigeria so that is a blessing too.

Shirley and John