Holiday Inn Monrovia Huntingtn

... the Sheraton LAX Hotel.

Sheraton LAX:-

After the Westin LAX experience, I am not expecting much from this airport hotel. It is one of the closest hotels to the airport and if I had known the shuttle was going to take forever, I could ...

... the tarmac and we get airborne. The in-flight entertainment finally activates itself after a re-boot and I settle in to watch 'slumdog millionaire'. Which personally I thought was brilliant. Kim watches Marley and Me about a Labrador and spends the last 30mins of the film in floods of tears. A few episodes of family guy later we are on our way into JFK. We get in, collect our bags and get outside to desperately try to find some food as the stuff on the plane was terrible ...

... and head to the Amtrak train station. This time we opted to catch a taxi to the station, rather than walk and catch a "regional" train - with suitcases the "regional" train line is not fun!......We learn from our mistakes! So we caught our train to New York, and then we caught another train (local metro) to the air train to get to the airport. Our flight from New York to Los Angeles left at 6:40pm and arrived at 9:55pm local time (1 ...

... we naar onze parkeerplaats...om onze auto op te (laten) halen...en tja, toen moesten we nog een hotel zien te vinden. We wilden in de buurt van het vliegveld zitten, dus het plan was omgewoon naar het vliegveld te rijden en dan een hotel te zoeken. Hmmm, das makkelijker gezegd dan gedaan...we zaten namelijk mooi in de spits. Enfin, rond 19:30 waren we eindelijk bij het vliegveld, met behulp van TomTom hebben de dichtsbijzijnde hotel gevonden...hotel 8..deze kenden we en ...

Okay, we decided to leave a little later to give me time to sleep. Sleep is a good thing. I know it is. It's just sort of a stranger to me. I feel better today, ready to go. I can't wait to see everyone. Stephani is doing last minute things, also ready to go. Cyndee

... Balboa Island getting ready for the hikes. With the help of her trainer she is in great shape and is ready to take on the gorilla trek in Rwanda. Getting her stuff packed and keeping to the 33 lbs allowed has taken a bit longer...maybe four months??? You better believe she will be ...

... Market et The Grove. Merveilleux décor pour faire des emplettes "haut de gamme". On se dirige par la suite vers Rodéo Drive, un genre de 5iève Avenue, mais à Los Angeles et plus petit que la fameuse avenue. L'heure du dîner approche, quoi de mieux qu'un petit repas sur Sunset Strip. Un repas dans un classique de la ville, Mels Burger. On marche encore un bon bout pour voir la House of Blues, et on se rend rapidement compte que la ville est beaucoup ...

... next flight takes off. Whoopie. More flying....long flying. In the meantime, I have managed to go through security twice alrady here (and once in Boston) and have had all of my belongings search (I know, I'm pretty sketch) Maybe it's the new haircut. For those who haven't seen, here's a pic... that was taken yesterday....after all day in the airport, it now looks more like this... I ...

... neutral look on his face while I was screaming my head off and running for my dear life.  At the very end, this one monster just kept coming after and after me!!  He wouldn't stop!!  Ben said that he first tried to scare him, and when Ben gave no reaction at all, he went after me.  He essentially kept chasing me and chased me out of the building until I realized that it was finally all over and was outside in the sun.  I told Ben that I wouldn't do well ...

Somewhere between Lima, Peru and Los Angeles, California, USA, 2006 came upon me. I had visualized happy announcements from the captain, good wishes to all, thanks for flying with us, maybe even champagne served by the flight attendants. I don't care for parties, but I am accustomed to watching the Times Square crowd on television as the firecrackers pop in my neighborhood. This time I got a shaky plane, three hours of turbulence, an unintelligible squawk from the ...