The Adventure Begins!

on Thursday evening we met at Bunny’s so the driver could pick us up for the ride to LAX. it was a drizzly evening and I was worried about traffic on the freeway. We left at 5:30 for a 10:30 flight! As you can see from the photo, we have a lot of luggage. But it has to last us 4 1/2 months!

As usual traffic was backed up as we enrtered the freeway. I was getting very nervous…. Then we got to the new Express lanes just opened. With three people in the car, it was free. We couldn’t figure out how the scanner knew there were 3 of us in the vehicle. We made it to the airport in just over an hour..That’s normally at least 1 1/2-2 hours! We were lucky! By the time we pulled up to the Delta area,it was raining hard. We got our luggage out of the car. I saw a desk outside with a man who looked like he was leaving. I quickly went to him and asked if we could check in. He said he was leaving for dinner but he would check us in. He must have taken pity on 2 wet senior citizens. Poor guy, as soon as we lined up, at least 6 more people lined up behind us. Dinner would have to wait for him.
since we were in first class we had Sky Priority on our ticket. That was better than TSA PreCheck. We got right through the line and headed to our gate. It was 7:30. We had lots of time to wait. We found the gate and the agent told us we could get in the Delta Sky Club. We had lots of time so why not? That meant we had to lug our carry ons and other bag back past where we exited the security line. We were a bit winded by the time we got there. Guess what? Sky Priority isn’t good enough to get in the Club. So we had to lug our things back to the gate. We got $20.00 sandwiches on the way..

We made it to the gate and finally boarded the plane. Wewere the first ones on in First Class and quickly got settled.Then we waited, and waited.. Our 10:30 flight left at 11:00. The big fancy first class seats were the most uncomfortable I’ve ever sat on. We had a mediocre dinner about 2:30 AM and then tried to sleep.We were off on our adventure!