Where Are We Sleeping Tonight: Air New Zealand flight somewhere over the Pacific Ocean Having packed last night means that all we had to do this morning was load all of our crap in the car. I don't think either Clare or I slept overly well, concerned with 11 bags at LAX being both cumbersome and expensive. After the obligatory Denny's breakfast, we spent a couple of hours driving on the 101 before encountering LA traffic - they were just as bad as I remember them! The speed limit was 65 miles an hour, I was doing 75 miles an hour and they were still speeding past me!
After driving on the 405, we stopped at a red light and before I could wonder how much further the airport was, an Air Canada plane thundered overhead - for a split second, I thought it was going to crash! We unloaded our bags at Terminal 2 (we filled two carts and still had more bags!) then Clare returned the red beast to the car hire company... it kind of felt like saying goodbye to an old friend. While I waited for Clare to return on the courtesy bus, I was entertained by countless travellers who were confused by the concept that you have to pay $5 to get a baggage carry. No Matter how much they pushed and pulled without success, they still couldn't figure it out. Clare returned and said that the car rental company didn't bat an eyelid at how dirty the car was or the fact that it had done 15,000 miles!
Venturing into LAX with enough bags to sink a battleship, we went up to the baggage check in. The Air New Zealand lady was nice and friendly an with our 5 suitcases all piled up on the scales, the total weight came in at 110kg! The lady had to look up how much to charge us in excess and Clare says the lady did us a dealing only charged us $215! It would have cost that much to post that box though all those weeks ago... good thing we didn't post it after all.
After the world's quickest Immigration check (I still can't believe we have officially left the USA) we went through the body scanner - oooh! Our carry on luggage set off the alarm though because we had packed some snow globes we had bought and they contained too much liquid - how stupid! The security guy was nice about it though and he genuinely felt bad that we had to check the bag in (at least we got away without having to pay excess on it)
We had some so-so nachos at a Highway 66 themed restaurant before settling in at gate 28 to await our flight amidst passengers awaiting their Air France flight to Paris. Wouldn't it be horrible if we got on the wrong plane and ended up in Paris... Clare is writing the last of the postcards we wanted to send but apparently there is nowhere in the entire LAX airport where you can buy stamps, nor are there any post boxes to post them. It's probably some stupid security thing...
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