Day 3.200: African Queen - African time?

Since online check-in had failed for our booking today, we set off in good time and arrived at the terminal about three hours before the scheduled departure time. By the time we checked-in they already knew that our flight would be delayed by more than two hours due to the outbound flight being late.

So, we were wise enough to delay our trip through security and instead explore Boston Logan Airport a little. We ended up having a very nice meal at Legal Seafoods in Terminal C - we also discovered that Terminal C was built as the international terminal in 1964. I don't know when Terminal E replaced it, and now that we're not trying to kill five hours at Boston airport I don't much care either!

We watched our plane land (on the delayed schedule) and then saw as it taxied past that it was called "African Queen."

When the boarding-hour for the delayed flight finally arrived, they announced that they were now investigating a possible technical problem and would know more in half an hour. Forty minutes later they announced that there would be another announcement in an hour. That meant 11pm - our scheduled departure having been 7.45pm. We were all getting quite tired by then - especially the kids. In the end, that hour turned into 20 minutes - and we were boarding at about 10.30pm.

The rest of the journey was smooth and our dread at an unplanned night in Boston made us all the more appreciative of that.