Flying to LA

Well peebles, I FINALLY made it to LA. Wow.. OK so here was my day on Monday:
Get up at 7, get dressed and ready and packed and out the door by 8:30 (I know.. you guys love the play by play, it's so riveting!) Get to the airport by like 10 (way early) and check my bag, and Adam and I hang out till about 12, I stand in line for security and Adam is with me the whole way, then I have to leave him to actually go through it so I start to cry. But he just stands there and waits.. I go through it all and come around the corner where I can see him at the exit and I ask the security lady if I can go forward 2 ft to kiss him goodbye and she says no, that once I "cross this line, I have to go through security again" and that made me more sad so I started to cry again.. *SAD face!*

So anyway, past the dramatic sob story.. Get on the plane... 1/2 hr late no biggie... wait around on the plane for an hour.. finally taxi out to the runway.. hang out for another 15min... then we get a message over the intercom saying that the technical difficulties that they thought they had fixed while boarding aren't really fixed and we have to taxi back to get it fixed...again..
soooo 10 min later... another little voice comes over the intercom saying sorry, can't fix it.. we have to change planes.. and I'll sum up by saying that the little voice over the intercom said that we have to walk aprox 1/2 a mile to the international terminal to where our new gate is. So here we go!
I get there and another little voice (not really little too btw, they turn the volume on those things so high a fully deaf person can hear it) that we will have to wait another 15-25min because they're cleaning and restocking food on this place since it just got in from another country.
All the time though I'm actually really chill- A: because I know that this is the definite safer option and yeah, I'd like a new cleaned plane and freshly stocked food, sounds good!
And B: This is EXACTLY why I booked the trip a day prior to my flight to AU, because if it was late, delayed or canceled I still had a better than good shot at making my other flight on time!

SO we load up and finally take off about 1.75hrs late.. no worries
AND I sat next to this totally neat dood! He's the lead keyboardist for White Snake!
His name is Timothy (I call him Timmy) and he's totally neat and really really nice. Turns out he also was a keyboardist for The Eagles back in the day as well and that him and his other band mates were going home from a gig they had at Niagara Falls and that their travels had been pretty shitty thus far and that the whole plane switching was a pretty F-in cherry on the cake of their travel day.
And I find out that the guy behind me (who supposedly is supposed to also be a really nice guy, but whom I never saw the brighter side of) is the guy who wrote "Hotel California"!! So I shook his hand and told him that that was pretty awesome and he should be proud of himself to have inspired generations upon generations with just 1 song... but by that point he had gone back to ignoring me and doing his sodoku puzzles.
So Timmy and I just sat and talked for a couple hours and had great chit-chat. Turns out he's also a novice photographer.. I looked at his book and I liked it! Then again I'm no photo critic, but it was all very inspired.

So (yeah I know, I use the word SO a lot) we got in over an hour late, which was expected, but all in all it was a great flight! OH- FUN STORY: I fell asleep on the plane for like 15 min and just then the plane hit an air pocket and the left side (the side I was sitting) and BOOM down like a rocket for .5 seconds... juuuussst enough to freak me the F out and make me gasp out of fear, horror and shock as well as sending my heart into my throat... so I scared a couple passengers, but all in all it was good fun! :D

And today is starting out to be pretty good! Slept well and it's really nice and chill here. But my 2 friends who I haven't seen in years and years, who I planned on seeing on my one day here before I leave the country, I now CAN'T see because they have lives and they have jobs and gawdammit!
Oh well, I'm goin to try and see them anyway! And either way I get to hang with my girl Samia all day!!

Alrighty folks, thanks for reading. As of this moment I have 10hrs before I'm on the plane headed for Sydney. I'll post more when I'm on the other side (or down under as it were)

Lots of love
~The semi quasay Australia Backpacker