Where the hell is Flanders?

Not as exciting at the title suggests, but this happened before we even arrived in Hungary.

Flanders and I realized a couple days before that we were taking the same connecting flight to Budapest from London Heathrow. This was most exciting to me because if I was lost in a foreign land at least I wasn't lost alone, but I digress. We made the plan to meet up in the airport by the gate of our connecting flight. Seems reasonable enough. So I arrive at Heathrow without trouble and as I'm going through security I see Flanders in the distance. I didn't really want to make a commotion trying to flag him down, so I watched the direction that he went and carried on my way. Hell yeah, this was going to be easy.

I get through security and wander the way he seemed to have gone. He's nowhere to be found, but that's not that ridiculous. This is Terminal 5, but it's freaking enormous. I'm told this is the new terminal, but still, Heathrow is obviously a big airport from what I've seen. So I go check to see where the gate is. Whoops, they don't tell you what gate it is until an hour before...and I have like a five hour layover. So I wander some more, yo-yo in the most prominent area (an activity I felt might draw enough attention while wasting time), surf the internet, watch some Mad Men, wander some more, and yo-yo some more. About 3 and a half hours later I turn around and two rows of chairs back is Flanders, sitting towards me oblivious.

I yell at him. "What the hell man, I've been yo-yoing here for like twenty minutes?" Suffice to say he didn't see me. I ask him what he's been up to. He says he's had 2 or 3 pints in the bar while he waited. Not only that but British Airways gives free drinks (!!) so he's had a beer and wine on the plane (as well as coffee, water and apple juice...apparently he peed three times). At this point it's not fair to call him drunk, but he must have been buzzed.

To make matters more interesting we arrived around 8:00 GMT, which is 3:00 EST. So he was drinking most of these beers around 5 in the morning EST.