planes trains and..

Yes Pride London is happening. And my final Soho Revue bar show. Unless something else dramatic happens in the next 12 hours I'm about to go to sleep so I can wake up and rock it for y'all on Saturday. I'll be there. Now - here is my travel story. It is beyond dull. And frustrating. Excurciatingly so. Major storms in NY forced our plane that was due to leave Wed night at 6.45pm to remain on the tarmac (with us on it) UNTIL 4. AM. No movies. No snacks. No real info. Just 8 hours stuck inside a metal tube with hundreds of other people in a thunderstorm waiting to take off. Only we missed our slot in the end as the pilot had gone over the legally allowed number of hours. So we went back to the gate. 8 hours later. At 4 am we were all taken off the plane and left in the airport where we were told there were 'no hotel rooms available' - and told our flight would be rescheduled in 14 hours! Yep.. 4 am we are plane-less and are told to check in again at 6pm. I felt bad for the young families and older passengers who were so tired. Everyone had to scramble and take care of themselves and it was utter chaos. None of the food vendors were open .. all the little babies were in full scream mode (don't blame 'em!) and everyone was sleep deprived. We managed to find the only 2 rooms at an airport hotel and slept for a few hours and then came back to try it again on Thursday night. To our groundhog day disbelief the events played out almost the same (sat on the tarmac for 3 hours!) before eventually taking off. My 6 hour flight from NY to London took 2 days and I'm obviously extremely tired and desperately looking for some organic goji berries and an intravevnous shots of coffee (fair trade Ethiopian no less!) to keep me awake tomorrow for my two gigs!! I kid about the berries and the I.V but a cold shower and some jazzercize routine may be be necessary in order to wake me up tomorrow. I kid about the jazzercise. But not about the outfit. It is yellow and features a fluffy headband. Right. There's the delerious button. Arrr jet lag me old friend! xxD