It all started with a huge two and half hour check-in queue at Heathrow terminal 2 care of Virgin Atlantic. Helpfully there was three girls trying to check-in four plane loads worth of people. Needless to say it didn't put us in the greatest of moods as it ended with us running for the plane and having to for go our traditional pre-flight booze up in the pub. We made up for it once airbourne. The flight was a very smooth 11 hours, managed to watch Pirates of the Carribean 3, 28 weeks later, Fantastic 4, Disturbia, Wind and Blades of Glory before snoozing for a few hours prior to landing. We landed at the wrong time, 4pm, just in time for rush hour traffic and just the thing we were both trying to get away
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