London Pt. 4

My last day in London was exclusively about getting to the airport. I woke up at 4:30 am so that I could catch my 7:55am flight. I did not realize that the Underground does not start running until 5:30am. I thought it would start earlier than that so people could be at work by 6. Anyway, I got up and ready faster than I expected. I was actually at the station at 5:05, which was before they opened. I was able to talk to my grandma on the way to the station and while waiting for the station to open because it was only midnight on the East coast. I took the 5:35 Victoria Line to Tottenham Hale, where I changed to the Stansted Express. Because that was the earliest I could get to the train station, the earliest I could get to the airport was 6:44. For some reason, I was very stressed about making this flight. I do not know why. Once I got to the airport, I had to wait in a line at the Ryanair desk for them to check my passport. Ryanair is the only airline that does this. I had also flown Ryanair four times prior to this trip and no one had said anything about this to me before. But, I had to do it. Once I was done with that, I had to wait in a long line for security. It was so disorganized. I felt like I was cattle being herded. It took much longer than I thought to get through security. On my boarding pass, it said the gate closed at 7:25, and it was 7:20 when I got through security. I ran to my gate, which signs said was a 15 minute walk. I was able to get there in time and get on the plane. Once on the plane, we waited for some reason, so we ended up leaving and arriving late. I have been on four on time flights out of the nine I have taken in Europe. Once we arrived, customs was not a big deal, and I took the tram back to my room. I dropped my stuff off and was at work by 11:15.