We're in LA and this is our hotel for tonight right at the airport. We had a great trans-Pacific flight on V Australia. The planes are beautiful and new with state-of-the-art entertainment systems. The food and the service was good and the seats seemed quite wide and comfortable.
The worst part of the flight was having to fly to Sydney and then go through the check-in process a second time to receive our boarding passes. When we've flown to the US before through Sydney with any other carrier we've received all boarding passes in Melbourne and not had to check in again.
The temperature in LA when we landed at about 4:30 pm was 19 degrees C. So that coupled with the fact that it was dark by the time we got out of the terminal meant that we didn't use the hotel pool as we had planned. Instead we went for a walk down Sepulveda Blvd. to an In-n-Out Burger place right next to one of the main airport runways. We had a lovely dinner of burgers and fries while an amazing drive through line with about 20-30 cars snaked past the door. Everytime the door of the restaurant opened we heard the roar of a plane as it flew right past the door as it landed. I clocked them and the planes were landing every 3 minutes. As we walked back to the hotel we stood below the flight landing path and I waved and screamed as each plane flew overhead. I've taken a few photos of a couple of 'LAX' signs and will post them later. Jarrah is waiting to use the computer and we're about to try to get some sleep.
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