We're Here!
My packing DID get done, although we didn't leave for the airport hotel until 11pm!!!!!!! We stayed overnight before our flight at the Thistle hotel near Heathrow -we booked via holiday extras and got parking included but we weren't very impressed with this hotel - it was GROTTY but as we got there at around 2:30am and got an alarm call at 7 am we weren't there long!
The flight was delayed a bit but it was very good with very little turbulance. We bumped into Lorraine from Just a Memory and Margaret and Emma from Artbase on the same flight - Margaret and Emma enjoyed slightly more spacious accommodation than we did in bog standard economy! US immigration was slow in the extreme but we finally got to the desk, were finger printed, iris scanned and allowed to enter.
We took a shuttle from LAX to Anaheim but getting out of LA at five oclock isn't fun. We finally got to Anaheim at about 6:30 local time - 2:30 a.m. UK time. We checked into our hotel then got a quick dinner before crashing out! It's 8:15a.m. ad we have a spare day today so we are off out, maybe to Disney, maybe somewhere else! Who knows. Show registration starts tomorrow so we will get the floor plan and start planning our route round the stands and essental stops! Wish us luck.
Anyone who has read my blog before will know who Mr Monkey is! (Isabelles favourite toy who she won't sleep without. You probably also know about the spare Monkey which looks the same but that she won't make do with. So I brought the Spare Monkey with us to LA - I am going to photograph him around and about to make her a little book of Mr Monkey in LA (she loves books and Elizabeth could do with a new one to read to her!!! So anyway, the picture is Mr Monkey on the flight carefully reading the safety card! Picture quality isn't great as I have my camera set to hoot RAW and basic jpeg - I don't have my RAW editing on this laptop so will properyl edit when we get home. Until then the basic low quality jpegs will have to do on the blogs and website. Be sure to check out the ATDML blog and our home page regularly while we are away as they are all being updated and I will spread any photos, especially of new stash, around these three places.
The flight was delayed a bit but it was very good with very little turbulance. We bumped into Lorraine from Just a Memory and Margaret and Emma from Artbase on the same flight - Margaret and Emma enjoyed slightly more spacious accommodation than we did in bog standard economy! US immigration was slow in the extreme but we finally got to the desk, were finger printed, iris scanned and allowed to enter.
We took a shuttle from LAX to Anaheim but getting out of LA at five oclock isn't fun. We finally got to Anaheim at about 6:30 local time - 2:30 a.m. UK time. We checked into our hotel then got a quick dinner before crashing out! It's 8:15a.m. ad we have a spare day today so we are off out, maybe to Disney, maybe somewhere else! Who knows. Show registration starts tomorrow so we will get the floor plan and start planning our route round the stands and essental stops! Wish us luck.
Anyone who has read my blog before will know who Mr Monkey is! (Isabelles favourite toy who she won't sleep without. You probably also know about the spare Monkey which looks the same but that she won't make do with. So I brought the Spare Monkey with us to LA - I am going to photograph him around and about to make her a little book of Mr Monkey in LA (she loves books and Elizabeth could do with a new one to read to her!!! So anyway, the picture is Mr Monkey on the flight carefully reading the safety card! Picture quality isn't great as I have my camera set to hoot RAW and basic jpeg - I don't have my RAW editing on this laptop so will properyl edit when we get home. Until then the basic low quality jpegs will have to do on the blogs and website. Be sure to check out the ATDML blog and our home page regularly while we are away as they are all being updated and I will spread any photos, especially of new stash, around these three places.
posted by Mel at 4:17 pm
1 Comments:
How exciting!! Love the monkey book idea.
Enjoy the show
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