Saturday, October 31, 2009

CA trip! (pt. 1)

Joshua and I got the opportunity to jet off for a monkey-less trip to CA earlier this month and it was a wonderful getaway. We flew my mom here to watch the kids and headed out for a much needed couple's weekend.

Our trip started off pretty rough. We were to fly out on Thursday afternoon but the weather turned pretty rough and the airport was shut down so we couldn't catch a flight until Friday morning. This would have only been mildly annoying except for the fact that we had special plans for all day Friday. We hadn't seen our best friends, Art and LaVerne in almost two years, and LaVerne's birthday was Saturday...so we kept our trip a secret from her and planned on showing up on her doorstep and whisking her and Art away for a quick overnight getaway to the coast (her favorite thing to do). It was quite the to-do keeping it a secret from her, getting her husband the time off work and planning the hotel etc. So when our flight out was cancelled, it was pretty disappointing to have all of that go out the window because we ran out of time. But, we regrouped and just planned on getting there Friday afternoon and going out to dinner with them and enjoying the couple of hours we could spend together.

So we got on our OKC to LAX flight. Joshua had free first class upgrades in his frequent flier bank, so he used them on us and we got to fly "in the front of the plane". WOW, was that pretty awesome! We had a flight attendant referring to us as Mr. and Mrs. and getting us anything we asked! And in this day of age of not even getting peanuts anymore when you fly coach, we got a yummy ORGANIC snack box!

And here's what I look like in first class LOL!



It was a pretty nice ride in first class. Joshua swears that you don't feel any turbulence up in the front of the plane, and true to form it was smooth sailing. I also cracked up when our flight attendant brought us warm, damp towels to clean up with (served from a tray with silver tongs) right before we landed. WOW!

So to add to our cancelled flights from Thursday story, our Friday morning plane was of course late leaving the gate too. We were pretty worried about making our connection in LAX (that would take us to LaVerne's hometown) as we only had 30 mins. We landed with about 15 mins before the next flight left. The flight attendants announced to the other passengers to please stay seated to allow us to get off first so we could rush to our next gate. So we got off and just like you see in the movies...we RAN!! I was of course wearing the worst shoes for this sprint, but we did it, and we rushed up to the gate our plane was departing from, just to be told by the attendant that yes, in fact, they knew we were coming but had closed the doors to the plane three minutes ago...too bad, so sorry! SERIOUSLY?! It was noon...and they offered us seats on the next flight at 9pm. WHAT? We can make the drive to LaVerne's house in just over two hours, so that's what we did. Joshua hopped on the phone, rearranged our plans to pick up our rental car there and off we went.

Next awesome thing about our trip?...Joshua upgraded our rental car to a HUMMER!! For completely UNpractical reasons, I LOVE Hummers! So it was another really cool treat to be drivin' around in style all weekend in this...



So we made the drive, connected up with my dad who had been so awesome as to run and get us a birthday cake for LaVerne and headed over to her house to surprise the heck out of her. BOY OH BOY did she not see us comin' LOL. I'd been doing an awesome job over the last two days of calling LaVerne to just say hi and telling her of all the stuff I was doing around home (complete lies) to keep her in the dark about the fact I was on my way to see her. So the utter shock on her face when I walked in her room and grabbed her in a big hug was priceless! We had a wonderful evening together going out to dinner and enjoying cake and company with my dad at his house.










Stay tuned for part 2!!

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