So we managed to board our plan in Calgary to London Heathrow on Thursday with no liquids (shampoos, gels, toothpaste, bottled water) in our hand luggage due to heightened security measures. It was quite the last mintue reshuffle in order to minimize our hand luggage. Surprisingly there were no line ups in Calgary and our trek had begun. We were retrieved by our uncle and cousins in London and arrived at home to see the rest of our family. Our stopover was only scheduled for 6 hours until we departed to the UAE (Dubai). We knew that flying out of Heathrow the day after this occurence would be some kind of mission. The Emirates check in line took over 1.5 hours and security another hour. There were roughly 600 people ahead of us in line. We
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