Well, we waited from 10:15 am until 9:15 pm at Heathrow airport and then at the last minute an announcement came over the public address system that our flight had been cancelled. This was immediately followed by a LOUD collective groan. Then they told us to go back through customs, reclaim our checked baggage, and then wait for instructions.
After we and all the other people on the flight went through customs and picked up our luggage, we were trying to decide what to do for the night. We called Darin at Concordia to help us find hotel rooms, but then we figured we should go find out what those instructions were. It turns out that Iceland Air is putting us up in a great hotel - The Tower Hotel - just alongside the Thames River by the Tower Bridge. We have a spectacular view of the bridge out our window. The bus driver must not have known his way around London too well, because we drove all over London and past our hotel three times before he finally stopped there.
Everyone seems very tired.
The only bad thing about being in this wonderful hotel is that we are here for less than 6 hours. It was past 12:30 am when we got to our rooms and we get picked up to go back to Heathrow at 6:00 am. We get a free breakfast that starts at 5:30 am.
We are already booked on a 9:00 am flight to Reykjavik. This will eat into the time we had hoped to spend going on an all-day bus trip of Iceland's famous Golden Circle Tour (huge waterfalls, geysers, and the place in Iceland where the North American and European tectonic plates are pulling apart), but it will give the students more time to relax in the Blue Lagoon.
That's the plan for now, but stay tuned to find out what really happens.
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