We Are on Our Way!

Hello to all....
We have begun our trip to the South Pacific EEEEEEEEE! We flew to Houston and connected to a flight to LA, with 51/2 hours of actual flying and a five hour lay over in Houston that was supposed to be 3 hours. Seems the plane we were supposed to board didn't want to go. They moved us to another plane and it took time to move the luggage and prepare the plane for the trip to LA. We don't know what was actually wrong with the plane, but we never boarded it anyway. If it had to have a problem, thank goodness it was at the gate.

When we planned this trip, we decided to stay overnight in LA before taking the 14 hour flight to Sydney. We are so glad we did this. We really needed the break from flying and to get a good nights sleep. We left home on a 6:30 am flight and were really tired when we got here. We are at the LAX Marriot. We are planning to lounge by the pool and relax until our late ( 6:00 PM) checkout. We will then have dinner and leave for the airport about 7:00 PM.

We will land in Sydney at 8:30 AM on Tuesday , Oct. 20 losing a day as we fly. It will be Monday in the states when we land.