Got up at 6.30am today. So early! But was too nervous to sleep because of the trip ahead. Probably the saddest moment of the morning was saying goodbye to Nicki. Gonna miss that girl.
Check-in at the airport took FOREVER. The woman at the counter couldn’t work out why my visa wasn’t registering...and it wasn’t until she flipped over my passport that she realised the visa was actually in there – like they’re supposed to be. But we got through eventually. It was a little sad saying goodbye to everyone (kudos to Ella and Ash who made the trek out), but I know it’s not forever and I’ll be seeing them soon enough. The flight to New Zealand (our stopover) was on time, surprisingly, and the connection to Los Angeles was on time too.
To NZ Lauren and I had seats accross the isle from eachother and I sat next to a lovely elderly lady who seemed very interested in our trip. She told me all about her grandaughter who’s in the UK. So cute. My ears aaaaaached at the end of the flight and wouldn’t pop. Agony. We were both super dehydrated aswell, so we basically bought food and water in the terminal then went to sleep on some couches.
The flight to LA was tiring. We were in the middle row of four seats and were excited cause the seat next to Lauren was empty so we thoguht we could spread out – until we realised it was only empty because the woman on the next seat over was so big that she needed two seats. Awkward. We slept most of the flight anyways.
We got into LA at about 2.30ish and the pilot said it was 21 degrees – which we thought was super cold, so jeans and a jumper sounded good. But when we actually got outside we were sweaty and gross because apparantly 21 degrees in America is hot. We caught a shuttle bus to our hotel and couldn’t figure out tipping, so just shoved some money at the guy and he seemed happy.
Our hotel is a nice place, but a dodge area. It’s next to japanese shops but other than that there’s not really anything around. We were hoping for a Walmart. But no. We ended up getting subbers for dinner, but have no breakfast. Sadface.
A few hours ago we had a pre-contiki meeting and got to meet some of the people going on our tour. Literally like 90% are Australians. Crazy how we travelled all this way and it’s basically like travelling around at home. There’s about 50 people!
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