Had a very eventful day. Started at 4am with Tayla throwing up! She continued to do this until morning. Matt took the other kids down for breakfast while we finished packing. Taxi arrived at 8am. Tayla sat in the front with her plastic bag looking very white. I was in the middle with Maia, Phil in the back with B & G. Then Billy started complaining of a sore tummy (but lets face it he does this at least a couple of times a day!) So Phil started rubbing his tummy and got a plastic bag just in case and then without warning he threw up (missing the plastic bag) all over the floor!!! Cleaned that up with wipes then got to the airport and got everyone and all bags out and about 10 minutes later realised that Billy's gameboy and ALL his games were left in the taxi!!!!
Had an uneventful flight to LA. Tayla hadn't trown up again but we had put her in the pushchair at the airport (The guy behind the counter thought she was handicapped!) She slept a while as we had quite a wait. She also slept most of the way on the plane. She really looked like s@@t. Thankfully Billy's was obviously just car sickness cause he was fine.
Filled in the forms they gave me in the plane (takes ages when you have to fill in 6 of them). Stood in line at customs for about 30 minutes to be told I had the wrong coloured forms and that they should be green. So had to go and fill in the forms all over again and stand in a different line (only about 5 minutes). Just as we got through an announcement 'Would the Alexander-Crawfords please collect their luggage from carousel 8, I repeat ...'!!!
Finally got out of the airport onto the bus which took us to the Hertz Hire Car place. Managed to find out way out of LA and onto the Freeway without any more dramas. The motorway on the other side was chocca but ours was quite free flowing. Turned on the radio to learn about the fires in San Diego!! Apparently 150,000 acres are on fire and 1/4 million people had been evacuated!!! Could see the smoke in the distance and at one point the sun was bright red through the smoke. Got to our Hotel and checked in . The women answered the phone about 6 times in the 5 minutes I stood there saying sorry we're got no vacancies!! Just as well we booked!
There's a definate haze in the distance and you can slightly smell the smoke in the air. Watching the news last night it appears to be quite bad in Carlsbad which is where Legoland is!
Received an email from Matt today to say he had tracked down the Gameboy and is going to pick it up from Taxi Driver on Thursday so I owe Philip $50!!! I really thought we wouldn't see it again.
Went to Fashion Valley today. Heaps of great shops but at least half were closed due to the fires! I finally found a few things to buy all at Abercrombie & Fitch!
Spent the afternoon in the pool and then went to Target and bought supplies.
We were planning on going to SeaWorld tomorrow but apparently its closed due to the fires so hopefully it will re-open before we leave. The Zoo is still open so I think we'll go there instead.
2 comments:
By god what a disastrous day!!!! Hope Tayla feeling better and no one else has got sick! There were heaps of fires in LA when we were there - staggering. It's all on the news here too! Enjoy the Zoo and fingers crossed for Seaworld reopening and fires all being put out! Take Care.
What an adventure! We would have nothing to read otherwise. I'll let the Brady's know they can bunk in your hotel as they are in the middle of the fires and getting set to evacuate. Hope things open up - otherwise make sure you get a photo at the entrance sign and make up the rest. Gaz
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