Woke up feeling much better...the water was way calmer. Had our breakfast on the ferry then debarked and took the shuttle bus to the airport in Aberdeen. Got on the first leg of our flight...Aberdeen to Heathrow in London.
At Heathrow, we walked a TON and after 3 checkpoint Charlie clearances (one where I got singled out again and frisked....what the hell?? do I look like a freakin' terrorist???? Then we were told we needed to go to another terminal and it would take 20 minutes to walk it. I said I needed to take one of those carts to get there so they got a cart and whisked us off the 2 miles it would have been to walk it. We would have never made our flight on time. This airport is really awful...unless you have 3-4 hours to spare and you are willing to walk several miles.
So right now we are on the plane trying to stay awake for a bit. We get in tonight around 10:00...but it will be a 30 hour day for us today.
Update...we survived the long flight from London to Chicago. Now we are in United hell...our flight has been delayed twice (typical United stuff). We were to get into Lincoln at 10:00...then 10:45...then 12:10. Remind me to never take United ever again...it's the worst! So here we are at O'Hare and to us, it's 3:00 AM...and we're still waiting for a firm confirmation on our flight.
Well, we are definitely in United Airline Hell...the flight that had been delayed that we were waiting to arrive from Pittsburgh....arrived. The passengers got off, the pilot got off. Then our flight was delayed because the pilot had maxed out on hours of flying time. So since they couldn't find a pilot at 11:00 at night, they cancelled our flight and sent all of us down to United service desk. Luckily Sara is very wise about getting hosed by United so as we walked the long walk to the United desk, Sara got on the phone...got thru to a person...and told them what had happened. They needed to have our ticket number so Sara read it off...it was D507FR...or whatever. The person at United got the D507 but thought the F was S. She said "Is that S as in Sam?" and the only funny part of the entire evening was when Sara said "No, it's F as in F....United"...that truly was the only laughable moment. It was just meant to be.
So she got us booked on an 8:15 AM flight that gets into Lincoln at 9:45. They tried to tell Sara that it was weather related so they wouldn't have to pay for our hotel, but Sara said that was a crock. At the counter they gave us vouchers to the airport La Quinta and vouchers for breakfast tomorrow...oh...and a paper bag with a toothbrush & shampoo & shoe shine polish ....because guess what....we couldn't get our luggage back. So we will be cranky AND smelly tomorrow morning and wearing the same clothes we've been wearing since leaving Shetland on the ferry.
We had purchased a luggage cart earlier because of the distances that we had to walk...so I just kept the cart as we walked out of the terminal looking for the shuttle to the La Quinta. We had to walk several blocks to find the bus stop...and I just kept pushing the cart.
The driver of the shuttle drove like a bat out of hell going 70 MPH in a 45 MPH zone. Got to the hotel...it took 15 or so minutes to get to the hotel. It's pretty much a crap hotel...the room smelled smokey. We took a shower and were in bed about 12:30 AM. Our wake up call will be 3:30 AM...so a whopping 3 hours of sleep. Went out like a light.
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