Ali King gave us a ride to the airport.  Picked us up at 10 and were in plenty of time before our flight.  We went thru the electronic check in and then got in line for security check.  It was about a half hour and we were thru the line with no problems.  No strip search either .. darn it …
We had plenty of time so we had a coffee right by the srcurity check. 
We got to the gate and began the ‘waiting for our flight’ process. 
We boarded at 12:30 and the plane took off at12:45 right on time.  I sat next to a guy who was a lot bigger than me.  I know he was uncomfortable the whole flight and so was I.  We got into Minneapolis at 5:45 pm and the connecting flight was 9:45 pm.  So ben looked at the list of resturants we had to coose fr and picked Rock Bottom.  It worked out really well.  We got there and there was a short line.  But within 10 mins we had a nice booth.  A couple of refreshments and a good meal later and we were off to the gate for our 9 hour flight to london heathrow airport. 
We boarded the plane and took off right on time.  I had an aisle seat one row ahead of BBS. 
The plane ride started well …
everyone had a screen in front of
them which had various movies to choose fr and also games to play.  They served us dinner .. i had some kind of chicken and rice dish while watching MI Ghost Recon.  Then i played some hold em poker.  Then i tried to go to sleep and couldnt so i tried to watch another movie and the device froze and i couldnt watch anything or play anything.  I looked back and ben and scott had their heads on bunnys shoulders on each side ..  it was cute.  I spent the rest of the flight trying to get comfortable and couldnt.  It was miserable.  We finally got into London.  I was very hapoy to have that flight done with.