This past week was a tour of Scotland with my parents and grandparents. I kept a blog during the tour despite my lack of internet access, and so this is the first post in.
Flight Time
We left the house at around 2 on Saturday, got through security and settled at our gate in Philly by around 6. A little past 8 we boarded our flight, then the pilot informed us over the intercom that due to extremely strong tailwinds, we'd hang around the runways for a bit: you're not allowed to get to Glasgow's airport more than 20 minutes early, it seems. Five minutes before takeoff a warning light came on, and the mechanics couldn't fix it in a short time.
To solve the problem they pulled a plane from the hangar, but it takes two hours to prep a plane, and they had to move all the baggage, food, and not to mention the passengers over. We sat at a gate until 11 when we boarded the new plane, and takeoff was midnight. Surprisingly, we were fed both dinner (at around 1:30 EST, 6:30 GMT) and breakfast (at around 5:00 EST, 10:00 GMT). I am uncertain which of those time zones the meals were to correspond to.
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