You can't always get what you want.

Like a vegetarian meal on a longhaul flight. ;)

But somehow, you can be removed from a flight while you are in transit and not know until your boarding pass is red-carded at the gate.

We may never know how I dropped off the flight manifest during our 2 hour stopover and became the extra passenger on the longhaul flight but that is bygones now. We are here and safe in San Francisco, with all of our stuff.

And after all that fuss to make sure we weren't given vegan but vegetarian meals on the plane - and in the end, only Maim got them anyway - where did we end up for dinner tonight? A vegan restaurant, of course.

And so concludes Day 1 of our adventure.