[TBD]: Pending suit case...

Well I have decided that AA should not get his luggage off the airplane on the first day of arrival as the first thing we did when we got to LA was head to a mall:). I never get to go shopping on the first day... And this time I actually didn't really get anything for myself. Adam picked up a pair of shorts, 2 tshirts from H&M, then the all important, socks, underwear, toothbrush and deodorant from Target. He figured that should tied him over until his bag reunited with him.

AA new suitcase

Westjet couldn't tell us when his bag would arrive, but they figured the suitcase would come on the identical flight we were on, just come the next day. So we figured the best bet to getting the bag back was to hang around LA until Monday late afternoon. So off to take in the sites we did (after Adam changed into shorts...)

We went to Santa Monica Peir. We walked on the board walk, up on the pier and saw a beautiful sun set.

Then headed to Hollywood Boulevard for supper. We went to Hard Rock Cafe, walked along the street and took in the stars, as well as the Chinese theatre. These were sites that we had taken in in 2006, the last time we were in LA for the aerodesign competition in University. We had a great time, headed back to the hotel because we were exhausted.

We fell asleep by 10:30... As we hadn't had a good night sleep the last night.

Today we knew we had a late check out of 4pm in hopes the bag would get delivered. So off to see the Hollywood hills we went. AA took us to Griffith Park, were we went on a long hike and got pretty awesome views of the Hollywood sign, also got a good work out, hiking about 5 miles up and down the hills and a sun burn.... We made sure we brought water this time as our experience in Tucson hike wasn't as successful in the water department.

We hiked way up there.

After the hike , we headed to Sizzlers for a lunch that had a salad bar (AA's favourite). While driving to lunch, we finally connected with westjet and they informed us that if they were to delevier the bag it wouldn't make it to the hotel for 4-6 hours... And since we had to check out in 1.5 hours, we agreed to go pick up the bag from the airport. AAs mood changed dramaitcally when he found out his suitcase was In the same city as we were.

So after lunch, we went to the hotel, packed the car and headed to the airport to get out last piece of luggage. Picked up the bag, and then headed out of the city and off so Solvang. On the way....

- traffic was extremely heavy

- Lola almost peed herself

-AA finally found a place for Lola to relieve herself before she embarrassed herself

- stopped in Santa Monica for supper

- Lola discovered she really burnt herself on the hike this morning

- made to Solvang

Go jets go!