I will make this short and simple. Our 10:45 British Air flight from Dulles left at 11:56 instead. We arrived at Heathrow with a little over an hour (instead of two hours), but (1) our gate had another plane, so we had to wait on the tarmac a while, and (2) one of the Terminal 5 check in spots was closed for the day, so we needed to take a train to another and work our way back to the entry of the area for our gate and they told us we were too late. So we had to go to the British Air rebook desk (another long shlep) and they rebooked us on a TAP flight, which was 6 hours later, and that meant we needed to take the bus to Terminal 2, walk a few miles to the TAP desk and get boarding passes and arrange for luggage transfer. Instead of arriving in Portugal at 3:45, we will get there at 10:30 p.m. and not get to our house until midnight. And remember we are traveling with a 2 year old. And no one got much sleep last night. For me,I got none.

We are now having lunch at London’s Pride at Heathrow. Our plane leaves in not quite five hours.

And how was your day?