British Columbians lined up at the Peace Arch border crossing for several hours this long weekend, one of the busiest travel weekends of the year.
Travellers were turning around, standing around and trying to come up with ways to pass the time because of long lineups.
Glenn Fisher and his family were supposed to catch a flight from Seattle Friday afternoon.
"So we've missed our plane now, so we're going to have to go there and see if we can get on another plane to go south," he told CTV News.
One woman said she was surprised at the long wait and had never seen the lineup so long.
"No, never, ever," she said. "I go down a lot, and I've never seen it this long."
Some people waited as long as five hours to cross, while a few lucky people seemed to sail through in about an hour.
Border officials said the wait was more than three hours long, simply because of volume. They said they were fully staffed and kept all lanes open, but there were simply too many people crossing the border at the same time.
Officials expect the crossing to be busy heading Northbound on Sunday and Monday.
Last year on Good Friday, more than 5,000 people crossed the border at Peace Arch.
The lines are expected to get worse in the coming months at the Peace Arch border crossing, when the new border services office temporarily shuts down some of its lanes.
With a report from CTV British Columbia's Michele Brunoro
