An interesting trip...

Well, Kelli and I made our trip out to California!...and it was interesting. We had to wake up at 4 a.m. to get going, which means 8 p.m. California time (which was a bit depressing). Neither of us felt all that great, both having colds, but kelli was definitely worse off. Our taxi came at 5 a.m. to pick us up, and we were serenaded by three drunk lads singing "Be Our Guest" (which I'm sure the neighbours appreciated).

At the Aberdeen airport we ran into two of our elders from church, one of which was on our plane, which is a bit random. We had coffee with him for a while before we took off. We had a lovely conversation with an Aberdeen judge who had next to us (also a bit random).

Then we got to Heathrow. Heathrow is the perfect example of how problems don't end by throwing money at them. For those of you who have never been to Heathrow (count your blessings), here is what you have to do. You sit in terminal 5 to wait for your flight to appear on the screen (since terminal 5 is basically a mall, I'm convinced that they do this to try and get you to shop). Then, with 30 minutes left until boarding time, they tell you your terminal.

At this point, we get up and walk for about 10 minutes, go down escalators two levels underground, get a train to take us to where the "B" gates are, and then walk another 5 minutes to our gate. We check in, and walk down one of the longest jet-ways I've ever seen. At the end, when we're expecting to get on the plane, they send us down more stairs, until we've on the actual tarmack, walking under a plane in the rain (which of course makes perfect sense). Then they board us on a standing-only bus like cattle, and take us on some intra-Heathrow highway system until we get to our plane. The biggest surprise was when we started to leave - our plane was only half full (if that). You can see from the picture below that we were the only one's in our entire row. Kelli stretched out across the middle seats for about 2 hours during the flight. I'm convinced the rest of the passangers are still on a bus somewhere in Heathrow.

If you look really close, you can see another plane flying along with us as we made our descent into LAX - notice the smog - awesome.

Well, we landed safe, and the trip went over without flaw. Kelli and I are both still trying to get over our cold. I'm hoping and praying that I'm 100% before my class starts. We head up to see Kelli's family today which will be fun (but hot I imagine). It was 86 degrees here yesterday, which is about 30 degrees hotter than my body is used to. To add to the confusion I had mexican food which was excellent...mmmmm...burrito.