DAY 1 - TRAVEL DAY
We had a 5am wake time and we collected our first timers Jas & Jamie by 5:30am. It takes about 45 minutes to get to Dublin airport, we had parked the car in the blue long term car park & was on the terminal bus by 6:15am.
After checking in with Aer Lingus we went to the food court. Our (Rob & I) tradition is to get a big fry at the airport after we check in so we headed to the breakfast place (no idea of the name) I got 2 sausage, 2 white pudding & toast, Robert got a full Irish breakfast, this cost us €20, mental expensive.
We took these horrible early morning pictures of ourselves, no makeup (scary)
After flying through security in terminal 2 we did not need to wait long for our flight to London Gatwick, as we were sitting at the gate we completed a survey for the Irish tourism board (i think).
On the first flight I decided to sit with Jas as it was only here second time flying and it was a short flight so our seats were at the back of the plane. Robert & Jamie were seating about 7 rows ahead in the aisle seats. Jas was panicking over everything that was happening, it was very cold and a little sleet so the plane was defrosted as we were preparing to leave, every noise that happened she questioned, once in the air we had a little turbulence so I had to work pretty hard to calm her
On this flight is where the first near death experience occurred. As we were taking off the overhead compartment over Robert popped open, there was cabin luggage slipping down as we went higher, Robert never noticed his predicament, thankfully as the bag was falling out all the people around him shouted a little and he caught the bag before it could hit his head, he stood up mid take off, shoved the bag back in and shut the overhead. Phew that was a close one.
On landing in Gatwick, we had to change terminal buildings, change our boarding cards Aer Lingus had printed for us to ones from British Airways, the J's (Jas & Jamie) grabbed a Starbucks and Rob & I went to boots for snacks and water. We noticed our flight was boarding then so we headed to the Gate. For the first time ever the guy at the gate asked us if we have proper visas, who we were traveling with and did we have return flights. On this flight we all got to sit together (well 2&2) either side of an aisle. I really hate flying economy, one day I'll upgrade and get a fancy seat!! On the up side myself & Robert got a spare seat so we got to have a little more space, this flight was extremely full so we were happy about the space
We each had the seat back TV with a huge amount of films, tv shows, games and music, I was surprised with the amount of films but unfortunately the selection wasn't amazing.
On the 9 1/2 hour flight I watched Serena (Jennifer Lawrence & Bradley Cooper) and Testament of Youth. The food that was served was a choice of chicken or sausage & mash, I skipped but Robert had the sausage & mash he said it tasted OK. Before we landed we were served Chicken Caesar Sandwich, I ate half it was nice.
Keep tuned in next post for incident number 2!
Jas got the sandwich and you could see his stomach turning from the smell, again he refused to drink any water 
and I just wanted to sleep. 
