Monday, March 30, 2009

California Arrival

Red Rental Car at our Cambria Inn
Sunset at Cambria

Our 12 hr 40 min Qantas flight from Brisbane to Los Angeles was very smooth and had us touching down on time at 7am Sunday 29th March. We both enjoyed watching some good movies - I saw The Changeling with Angelina Jolie, and The Secret Life of Bees with Dakota Fanning and Queen Latifa. We were in the first line getting through customs, and our luggage was already on the carousel when we left customs, less than 20 mins after we landed. Then we reached immigration and with a quick tick of our forms, we walked straight out into the beautiful sunshine and picked up a hire car. Before we knew it, we were on the road heading north out of Los Angeles. We couldn't believe we saw a deer on our first day back in the country! Although we both got a few hours sleep on the plane, by lunchtime our eyes felt like we had sand in them, so we pulled over and had a catnap before driving on. Our first sunset at Cambria, a small seaside village about one-third of the way up from LA to San Francisco, was beautiful.

2 comments:

  1. Great photos. They brought back memories of our ride over the Golden Bridge and our ride past Alkatraze. You have been busy. Gem will send you snaps of the wedding as I did not take a camera - enjoyable wedding.

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  2. Yes the photos were great.
    I was a bit surprised to find so many dressed in black.. but Myers store was full of black and grey also.
    I had a lovely time talking to so many that I see so rarely.Both parties and their rels seem to be happy people.
    Bill is here now so I wont see so much of Gem....
    I drove Joe to Mass this morning and he had left his key inside...
    Barb rang and is coming for Easter...
    Yoour blog is very interesting. It will make a sizeable book!!!!

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