Next morning my alarm went off at 7:30 to the tune of Dolly Parton 9-5 (just because I am a classy guy) and we sprang out of bed...ish. Full s***, shower and shave and we were full of smiles and on our way to the airport. Took just under two hours to get to Heathrow. We went to find the check in desk and there wasn't one. We had to check in at a machine. It scanned our passports and took our flight details and that was a two minute job. Then we took our bags to bag check in and head through to the departure lounge where we found a bar... well it was 10:00 am, 'one pint of Bass and a white wine please duck', '8 pounds 10 pence please sir', s*** the bed for two drinks. Sarah, as she is a nervous flyer, about necked hers and then said 'another one please'. I didn't have enough English money left so she said 'well get me a vodka or something'. 'Vodka please mate', 'any coke or orange?' he said looking at the clock, 10:15a.m, 'erm, no just straight'. To be fair to her she swiftly downed it and was ready for boarding. We headed to the departure lounge A33 for flight BA0005 to Tokyo, and there was 40 minutes until departure so we headed to the bar again and to my delight it was a Wetherspoons. This time a Newcastle Brown and a white wine and 'sharer' bag of crisps. 7 pounds 30 pence (a bit better), paid on card and sat down, pint cut short by boarding the plane so saw the beer and wine off before boarding.

On the plane we found our seats, it was massive! We had the four seats in the middle and nobody sat next to us, take off was a dream then they came round with COMPLIMENTARY drinks (even better), two vodka and cokes later they brought round a choice of dinner either Japanese chicken or some sort of beef...and... a free bottle of wine (I was beside myself). Scranned it and drank up then started to watch The Godfather. Was about one hour thirty into the flight when fortunately, I mean unfortunately, a Japanese lady felt unwell so the air hostess asked us to move as we had all four seats so she could lay down. She was very apologetic and asked if it would be o.k to put us in the first class section, before I could say anything Sarah had said 'yeh o.k' and was stood up. What a spot of luck. Went through the curtain and sat in out new found thrones. Seats back foot rests out and nudged each other about a hundred times. Got a bit of kip, watched Ratatouille and before I knew it we were landing. The best flight ever (apart from one to Bratislava with two lesbians but that's a different story).