My first thought for this entry… “LAX is the lamest airport I’ve ever been in”, and that’s saying something. Ignore the next paragraph if you don’t want to read about me complaining about the LAX airport.
There is nothing to see or do inside or outside any of the terminals, unless you’re at the international terminal. There are very few shops and all of them, like most airport shops, are overpriced. Once in the terminal, forget about being comfortable or finding an outlet to charge any of your electronics. If you’re looking for internet, you can forget about that too. There are a number of wireless networks that are visible, however most networks you can’t connect to, and if you can connect, they’re an arm and a leg price wise to connect to the internet. When I connected to the T-Mobile network, they wanted me to pay $7.99 for a whole day of internet, but who spends a whole day at the airport? Nearly no one. I would have been paying $8 for an hour and a half… if I could actually get the website to load. There was a service problem. “We're sorry, we are unable to process your request at this time. Please try again later. If the problem persists, contact us at 1-877-822-SPOT (7768). “It’s unfortunate that I decided to leave my U.S. cell phone at home… or I’d be calling to tell them how lame they are. Then to top it off, their recycling program sucks. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen people throw food into the “newspaper” container now because they can’t figure out where else to throw away trash. Maybe it’s like Atlanta where they sort the recycling after the fact anyhow. All in all, LAX needs some improvement.
If you’ve skipped the last paragraph, good for you. If you read it, I’m sorry. Today was spent doing last minute things before my trip; doing the last load of laundry, packing the last few items, mailing a few last things and saying a few last minute “see ya later”s.
At about 5pm, after eating a few fresh strawberries that Carl had brought home, we were off the airport. We had no problems with traffic, and other than me having to pay $50 for my extra bag, things went smoothly at LAX.
Other than sitting across the aisle from a French couple that smelled like they didn’t understand the concept of soap and water, the flight went equally as well. The flight attendant had even convinced the kid sitting next to me to sit somewhere else, so I had an empty seat next to me. As a matter of fact, I enjoyed flying with Air New Zealand, that I might say a few words.
Air New Zealand is one of my top three airlines to fly. They were extremely friendly flight attendants, tons of games, movies, music and even audio books to entertain you, and they have one of the funniest safety videos ever. They had some goofy character (we couldn’t figure out what it was) that would speak-up every so often. For example the flight attendant would mention the lighting on the floor to direct you to your nearest exit and the little creature would speak-up, “Like a nightclub in the sky.” It’s very nice to ride on an airline with a sense of humor.
Within about 3 hours of take-off I had watched the movie “Moring Glory”, which was quiet entertaining. Before I tried to sleep (10pm Sydney time) I had checked our flight status. It was quite interesting; there’s a place called Mathematicians Seamounts on the map, it’s 10497km from LAX to Auckland, and we were traveling at a speed of 0.83 Mach (whatever that might mean). At that point I knew it was time to try to get some form of sleep.
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