My flight for today was canceled as well, which is why instead of sitting on a plane, I have just had a bath in my hotel room. SAS texted me early this morning, and my mum rang me at around 7 to let me know she’d seen it on the BAA website. She suggested I hurry out to Heathrow and try to get on a flight to Stockholm or Copenhagen or somewhere else closer to home that they were flying to, and then get a train or bus or something.

However, my absolutely amazing significant other, who spent all day yesterday on the phone and the Internet trying to get me on a flight today, and who couldn’t sleep last night and instead sat hitting refersh on the status of my flight, had an even earlier start today. He got on the live chat at Wideroe.no with a lovely man named Hans Petter, who managed to get me on a direct flight to Oslo tomorrow afternoon. He also bumped me to business class, as sometimes happens when they over-book (it has actually happened to me once before, when we flew to Iceland when I was about twelve).

This is awesome in lots of ways, the most important of which is that tomorrow the temperatures are rising. Tomorrow afternoon we’ll be up to 0 degrees Celcius out at Heathrow, and as we all know, 0 is not the temperature at which water freezes, but at which ice melts. Since this is the rainiest country on Earth, I have every confidence that they’ll manage to deal with a wet runway even though ice provided a serious challenge.

I’m expecting there to be delays of course, but I actually feel optimistic and hopeful (which means I’m setting myself up for disappointment in the event that the forecast is wrong and it’ll still be frozen tomorrow, but oh well). Several planes are taking off from Heathrow today, too, so maybe tomorrow they’ll be back to something akin to normal, apart from flights to other places that are also having trouble.

So, today I’m heading off to my favourite parts of London to have a look around and just take it easy. First stop is Starbucks as I missed breakfast today (nowhere I have to go, so I might as well sleep in). Then I’m thinking Shaftesbury Avenue to head to Forbidden Planet. Might head to Camden, but that’s not as much fun when you’re alone. Either way, I’m gonna have an okay day.

Keep your fingers crossed and think good thoughts for me!