Blah blah blah, we're on a plane.
Blah blah blah, we get to London.

Waiting an hour in the customs line.

We go to have lunch and we see a fish and chip place on the corner. Amber sat outside with the bags and I went to find the entrance. I'm three steps away and this huge guy yells at me "welcome to London", I replied thanks, then he tells me to "f BOMB off", I tried to walk by him, and he puts the back of my hand to my throat, like a karate chop, but didn't hit me. And then he kept saying "is this yours?" I'd had enough and walked away. We found a door on he other side and a few minutes later the cops showed up. They talked to him for a good half hour, I'm not sure if they took him away or he calmed down, but when we left he was gone.

So we made our way to the airport and it took way longer than I thought it would, probably an hour on the metro. When we booked the flight we really wanted to get on a 12 (noon) flight, but if the price didn't go up like it did when we checked the next day, we probably would have been running for our flight. So it was a blessing in disguise that we had to take the 9 oclock.

We got to Heathrow and check in using the self check in, checked our bags, got a Starbucks, bought some duty-free alcohol (we decided on Pimm's No 1, because our friend Simon suggested it, so Simon better be right!).

We went to board the plane and they re-printed our boarding passes! We were like what the heck, what was the point of using the self check in to print them then? Then he told us that we were upgraded to First Class!

Wow, first class is amazing! We got champagne as we boarded, our seats fully reclined, we got awesome service, free alcohol (3 glasses of wine and 2 rum and coke for me), and amazing food. The meal that I had on the airplane was probably one of the best meals I've ever had in my entire life. We had lobster and duck and this amazing salad, the only thing that was just ok was the desert, everything else was amazing.

We landed in Calgary at 8 oclock (so that's 4 in the morning Amsterdam Time). Amber's mom came and picked us up and we drove back to Edmonton.

We got to bed around 11:30 or so (7:30 am Amsterdam Time). And that ended our 25+ hour long day and our 8 week trip.

written by  Trevor and Amber on June 24, 2009 from London, United Kingdom
from the travel blog: Europe Trip
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you are so lucky to visit these nice places...
thank you for posting this, I'm going to go there myself in the nearest future

written by  wow-traveler on October 7, 2009

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