Day 1
Crappy start to holiday.
Plane from Brisbane left 2 and a half hours late, meaning I was not going to get my connecting flight in LA unless we made up some great time! Not so bad though because I got to watch Roger win his 4th round match. One more for him to win and I will see him play in the flesh.
Flew Business Class from Brisbane to LA and it was great! Nice big seats, good food and good service. Tried to sleep but felt the few bumps along the way. Not too bad a flight, could have been smoother, but can’t complain.
It all went to shit when arriving in LA. Was late so was rebooked on an American Airlines flight at 11am (instead of Qantas 9.45am flight), so not too bad. Bag took an eternity to come out and by the time it did the line through customs was a mile long. Because my flight was going soon I managed to get a Qantas person to take me though. BUT they are hopeless. I was paged by Qantas but when I went to speak to them they didn’t know why?? The page said urgent….whatever!
The ladies from Qantas were pretty useless but finally figured I had to go to Terminal 4 and get on the American Airlines flight. Whilst checking in (had to ask about 5 times how to get to where I had to get), saw Megan Gale and her man Andy Lees. He looked straight at me but didn’t recognize me?? Pretty cute guy and she is really gorgeous! Seemed a little arrogant though – probably just me because I was pretty pissed off at this stage.
Got on the flight and went from the Penthouse to the shithouse. Not only did I not get a business class seat, I was ‘coach’ right down back and stuck in the middle aisle middle seat!!! AND AA do not feed you, you have to pay. I paid to fly Qantas so I could upgrade if I wanted, and get fed. I got neither, fingers crossed I get FF points. Had to pay US$10 for a shit chicken sandwich – I thought America was meant to be cheaper!!! And this crappy airline had no video or radio, so for 5 hours I twiddled my thumbs!
So right now it is the 3rd September and I am somewhere over the middle of America. Meant to be arriving in NY at 7pm their time (in about 3 hours). Very tired because of time difference and only got about 2 hours on plane over. Will get back to hotel, check in and crash. Then I can be bright and alert (hopefully) tomorrow when my holiday starts.
Plan on doing a walk but will find somewhere I can watch Roger play his ¼ final – he just has to win!!!
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