Up and getting ready to leave. Packing nightmare as Heather wants to take far too many sweets. We managed to fit everything in and pushed sweets into any corner and pocket we could.
Heather texed Jane to bring us sausage baguettes for breakfast and we were getting in a panic as it was nearly time for the taxi and we were still waiting for Jane. She finally arrived and we had our breakfast and then it was waiting for the taxi.
I hate goodbyes and it was sad as we are not sure when we will next see Jane and Jason.
We had a really good journey to the airport and I was very pleased that Janet had put me in touch with this taxi man. He was very pleasant and when we were on the A1 he saw a queue ahead he managed to get us into the outside lane pretty quickly and off at the junction and he found his way to the airport on roads that we didn't know existed. I know it is his job but it was very well done and I would have no hesitation using him again. He was amazed at the amount of luggage we had though!
We got to check in and it was all pretty easy as we were flying premium economy and so there was no waiting.
We went to find some lunch and Jon and Heather shared a pizza and I had some very nice fruit and yogurt.
We had booked some really good seats on the flight and were upstairs on the jumbo and the front row just before you go into business class so we had lots of leg room.
The flight attendants seats for take off and landing were in front of us and I was pleased to see Matt again. We had met him on our flight from LA to Heathrow and he was really friendly and very helpful and we got the same service they had in BC.
Unfortunately, we had three women behind us who had never met before and they talked for the whole nine and a half hours. It was terrible and so loud. When the whole cabin was asleep they were still at it and told each other about their pensions, sex life, how many time they made love with their partners, mortgages and so it went on and on and on. I could stand it no longer and turned round and asked them to keep their voices down and they looked at me in horror! They were a little better but not much. Matt said I should have told him and he would have sorted them!! They were continuing to Auckland and I just hope they had a bumpy flight and were not able to sleep for the rest of the trip and arrived feeling shattered!!!
Apart from the above the flight was really good, smooth and very good food. Matt chatted to me when we were preparing to land and told me lots of places he had been to in LA and where we should go and then I realised we had landed and it was so smooth I hadn't even noticed.
We were very tired but cleared immigration and customs with no problem and then got a taxi to our hotel which was very nice, with two rooms and overlooking the beach.
After a quick change we went out to find something to eat and ended up on the third floor of a shopping mall. We really didn't feel like much but thought it was a long time till breakfast so ought to have something. Heather had a past meal which was really too big and so she couldn't finish it and Jon and I had a salad which came with a flat bread. We thought the flat bread would be like garlic bread but it was a flat bread each witha huge salad on top!!! Far too much and we couldn't finish it either.
We then went back to the hotel and into bed/
WEATHER
Cloudy in the UK and warm in LA
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