Sunday, April 16
The Gipsy's are in LA
And it is cloudy and raining. But when I look out my friend's window the view is of hills covered with palm trees and spaceship houses clinging to cliffs. The weather might be similar but we ain't in London anymore. We squished in with all the tourists along the walk of fame yesterday, and today we'll do the la brea tar pits. It was going to be Venice Beach but maybe the weather will be better on our return. Tommorrow we fly on to New Zealand, then at the beginning of May we stop over here in LA on the way back again. Twelve hours is the max possible on a plane with a one year old. Actually it is past the max. Anything more than an hour with a baby on a plane is past the max. It is twelve hours of sheer hell. Of walking up and down up and down. I got off the plane with my pockets stuffed full of rubbish from the walkways, grabbed before it could go in baby G's mouth. I used up a whole packet of disinfectant wipes in the toilets changing him (getting a nappy on and off a baby in a airplane toilet could be a mensa test). It was the cleanest plane on the Heathrow to LAX flight route. I say that we're going to do the tar pits today, but what I mean is that if Air NZ manage to sort out our replacement tickets and we've enough time left in the day we'll be doing the tar pits. Our original tickets are, as far as I know, still in the pocket in front of our seats, in the cabin of the plane we were on, on Friday.
Posted by GateGipsy @ 7:38 PM
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Gipsy joined GateWorld when it was STARGUIDE in January 2001, and has
been watching Stargate since the movie. Originally from New
Zealand (specifically, Wainuiomata), she started backpacking around the
world in 1989 and hasn't stopped yet. Life is spent mostly in London with
husband Mr G and baby G, born in 2005. She is also blessed with a
beautiful step daughter and wonderful step son.
Nice to hear from you :)
((((((hugs))))))) about the original plane tickets! Thankfully thats never happened to me. I'd be in a complete panic!
The tar pits sound fun. I never got to see them back in 1985 when i was out there.
xxxxx
Have a great trip.
Serves you right for trying to go to NZ with a one year old kid in tow;);)...my sister was nervy about taking her youngest(similar age to Baby G) to Spain!
Enjoy
I'm glad that you made it in one piece and I so don't envy you the flight with baby G. I flew to Oahu with my son when he was 1 1/2 and that was only a little over 5 hours and it was too much, I can't imagine 12. I hope the rest of your flight goes better and that the weather in New Zealand is better than LA.