San Francisco to LA

Sunday, July 13

After a wonderful night last night with Steve and Karen we thought we'd have a nice sleep ahead of our big travel day today. However, we didn't count on the noise in the hotel with it being a Saturday night and also being located next to a club. Unfortunately a group of girls returned from the club about 1am and spent the next hour or more running up and down the corridor outside our room, speaking on their phones, yelling at each other and squealing! Not conducive to a good nights sleep!! It finally ended at about 3:00 am.

When the alarm went at 7:30 amwe were still tired but had to get moving so we would be ready in time for our 9:30 am shuttle ride to the airport. There wasn't much traffic around so we arrived in plenty of time to check in and catch the flight to LA. After collecting our luggage in Terminal 1 we had to get to Terminal 3 to check in, so decided to get some exercise and walk there. Along the way we detoured into a terminal where there was a bar with the World Cup final on TV, so we watched the last 30 minutes of the game along with about 200 or more fellow passengers! There was quite a cheer when Germany kicked the winning goal but we think there were more Argentinian supporters in the crowd - and they were very quiet at the end.

Crowd watching World Cup final at LAX

 

After checking in at Virgin Australia we walked to the departure area in the Tom Bradley International Terminal to go through security. This process took nearly an hour but went quickly as we got chatting to a young family heading off to Europe for a month's holiday. There was an interesting light feature in the terminal which kept showing "totems" of the different destinations you can reach from LAX - it was very clever. The quality of meals in US airports has improved a lot and we enjoyed a nice late lunch before settling in for the long wait for our plane to depart at 10:15 pm. We're looking forward to a good sleep on the flight to Sydney where we have to change planes for the last leg home to Melbourne.

Light display of Sydney "totems" at LAX

 

 

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