The day has finally come it’s 8^th August 2008, the day our epic world tour will begin. In true Goonies fashion we decide to should to start ridiculously early at 6:30 AM to catch our first flight to New York at 11:45 AM. Our motive behind this is that as a group we are always notoriously late for everything and as regular as clock work Kev arrives 20 minutes late.

At the airport after saying our farewell to the family and shedding a few tears along the way we checked in with no problem. At the security check desk we all decide to remove items that could set off the metal detector, but on this occasion I was too lazy to remove my belt which I knew always set off the detector. What a big mistake as I have never felt so abused as it was the most rigourous body search I have ever experienced. The security staff took body searches to new extremes as he used his fingers to rimmed the inside of the top of my boxer shorts. I thought I was getting ’special treatment’ but Chris made the same mistake except he was less fortunate as he required 3 body ‘molestering’ searches to get the all clear.

After being molested in board daylight we decide to knock back our first beers. It was about 11 AM and we had to board the plane at 11:45 AM so we had a good 30 minutes to enjoy a pint. As 11:30 came around we neck the rest of our pint and make a move to board on the plane. To our amazement we was so late that we was the 4 last people to board the plane. The staff had already printed a list (which only contained our names) of luggage that had to be removed off the plane. Despite a shaky start to our world tour we arrived safely at JFK Airport with no further set backs.