In the midst of chaos at Vancouver International Airport from a snowstorm, a small toy was found left behind without its owner.
Celia Taylor was trying to travel from Vancouver to Edmonton for the holidays on Tuesday when her flight was delayed and ultimately cancelled.
“I had a flight booked for 11 a.m. and then that got bumped to a different flight leaving at 3 p.m., then that flight got delayed four times and then it was eventually cancelled,” she says.
Mass cancellations at the airport caused people to be stuck on the tarmac for hours. Others slept at the airport.
“Everything at the airport was just so chaotic and such a disaster,” she says. “I was just surrounded by crowds of people just having the absolute worst day of their lives.”
Taylor was walking from gate to gate, hopeful that her flight would not be cancelled and noticed a fluffy object on the floor.
“I was in the local departure terminal near the Pacific Farms Market, I think near gate C29, and there was a sad little lost bunny rabbit lying on the ground,” she says.
She picked up the small toy off the floor and put it on a table nearby so that it would be visible to anyone walking by.
“And then when I went back the same way later, it was still sitting there,” she says.
The toy bunny was light blue in colour, and is likely a Jellycat brand toy. Taylor adds it was very soft and very “huggable.”
“I took it to the nearest information desk in hopes of finding a lost-and-found,” says Taylor. "I assume that somebody is currently very sad to have realized that they're missing their bunny.”
A spokesperson for Vancouver International Airport confirms it does have the bunny safe.
“We hope to reunite this comfort passenger with its human! We'll take good care of it until we can!,” they say in a tweet.
Taylor also hopes this story will find the rightful owner and they can be reunited soon, even before the holidays.
“I'm just really hoping that this can be a story with a happy ending for Christmas,” she says.
YVR has a website and contact form on their website for lost and found items that can be visited here.
