Our first adventure

So we made it safely to Dublin AND had our first adventure today!

It all started when our flight to London was delayed in landing because apparently Heathrow was really busy (wouldn't they know these things beforehand since it's one of the busiest in the world?), but eventually we were able to land. And then we had to find out what terminal we should be on for our next flight. As luck would have it, it wasn't the one we were currently on.

So we take the nice little 10 minute bus ride over to terminal 1 from terminal 5. This is about 11:30 when our flight is at 12:05. So we get off the bus and are like well I guess there's no stamping of the passport? Wrong.

We wait in line while the lady grills us about how long we'll be in the UK, to which the answer is hopefully not much longer since our flight leaves in 30 minutes. So a little flustered, we make it through only to find out we have to go through additional security checkpoints. So a face scanning, bag scanning, another face scanning, and 15 minutes later, we're on our way to gate 84. Easy peasy, right? Wrong.

I think we walked (err... ran) at least a mile because this terminal was so huge, and empty. The signs told us it would take 15 minutes to reach our gate from the current point we were at, and challenge accepted! So we run/walk all the way from gate 1 to gate 84. And have about 5 minutes before our flight is supposed to leave.

When we get there, we see a crowd of people and THEY HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED BOARDING YET. I'm glad we got that memo before we ran the whole way there. But never fear, we made it. We handled all the stares from the other passengers and were A-Ok.

So long story short, we ran but we made our flight! So we're currently in Dublin, all cosy in our hostel and happy after a good meal :)