So hopefully in a couple of hours time we will finally be continuing our journey to New York. I guess I should be grateful that we were able to escape Heathrow and the fog yesterday but it hasn’t certainly hasn’t come without trauma.

I knew when I arrived at Heathrow that maybe we’d have a bit of delay and that the terminal might get a bit crowded but in the end I’d make my connection in Lisbon to Newark. It wasn’t to be with our London to Lisbon flight first officially being delayed for 3 hours, then extended to 4 hours and then extended to 6 hours as we sat on the tarmac on the plane for nearly 2 hours! It was really wierd because everyone was acting like we were in the air with beverages and food being served on the plane but we hadn’t actually taken off. As a result of all this there was no way I would make my connection. I wasn’t worried as TAP staff in Heathrow assured me that the Lisbon TAP staff would help me out …

Unfortunately I was once again let down. No TAP staff were in Lisbon to meet us and in fact none turned up until about 2 hours of us chasing and hassling other Lisbon airport staff to get someone to help us. Finally we got booked on to the next flight to Newark which was sadly today and not yesterday. I guess the only consolation was that I met some super and fun people: Ian (who we affectionally call Kiefer for his resemblance to Mr Sutherland), Kid and Hemi. We spent an uncomfortable night sleeping in the airport – entertained by this cleaning lady who kept zooming by on her zamboni style floor cleaner. We must have been quite amusing to her because she literally drove back and forth past us ALL night.

Outside Lisbon Airport	As the name says – the Cockpit Bar	Passing time
	The Morning After