The flight

The journey over was pretty good. You start to zone out on the flight a bit, as sitting in the same place for twelve hours is a killer. The entertainment system on the plane wasn't the usual great one, but an older version whose only benefit is that you can play Mario and Tetris. I pretty much just listened to music all the way, with perhaps an hour of 'School of Rock' at the end, and an hour of Tetris in the middle. I was doing good with Tetris when I got up for the toilet, so I paused it and when I came back it had finished my game. I played again and managed to get to 78 lines, which isn't too bad considering the controller kept throwing my blocks in weird directions.

I was sitting next to two women on the flight. The one directly next to me wasn't big on flying at all, she spent like half the flight in the foetal position or something, but she was okay in the end. Next to her was a nice girl called Angela who I spoke to from time to time (and told her about this site). She works for a charity in the UK, but was raised in LA, and is just heading back for a couple of months to sort out her marriage visa for the UK.. and then she's back to Britain full time (I think). Somehow I asked her if she was a valley girl, which I realised is a big mistake because it's like asking a woman from London if she's an Essex girl.

They try to give you way too much food on the flight. Lunch, tea, snacks, and the meals are huge, you get all these bread rolls, muffins, and stuff. I had to decline half of it, it's just way too much. The service was excellent though, as always. Virgin Atlantic still gets a massive thumbs up from me. There were a few delays, so I didn't get out till late, but met Peter and we were on our way, dodging jams on the 405, when we decided it'd be better to take La Cienega and Laurel Canyon. Even got in some shopping at Ralph's.. and now today I have net access, woohoo.

Pictures are a bit thin on the ground, I have a few, but not with any people in them, yet, and I didn't take any pictures while in transit.. which I guess is a mistake. You don't really feel in the mood for snapping while travelling though, but perhaps I'll have to take some on the way back.

Oh, I have a mobile too now, equipped with a valley number too, but I won't put the number here, if you want it.. leave a comment, or I will be e-mailing it to you anyway.