Our flight to Fiji flew westwards over the international date line, so because we set off at 11.30pm on Monday we lost Tuesday completely!

We landed in Houston and very shortly were on our next flight to LA. We went there last year on our California road trip so weren't staying there, just getting an internal flight straight up to Chicago.It was a few hours before our Chicago flight, so we settled in the lounge and toasted our arrival in the US with some champagne! Things were all going well until we went to check on our flight status and found it had been cancelled. We joined a long queue of a...