Wow! So much to say, and we haven't even left LA yet!
So, the plane that we are going to take comes in to
Long Beach for an emergency landing. They have to park the plane on the runway and evacuate the passengers using the emergency exits. This is around, 5:30.
So, the plane is dead so we have to make other arrangements. We stand in line for 40 minutes at the ticket desk (no one was there...) while Grant tried to get help over the phone. Finally at 6:30 we get someone to help us and she says, "One of you go get your bags..." so I go out to get the bags and Grant gets us rebooked on a 9:00 flight to Seattle out of LAX, a hotel voucher, and an 11:00 AM flight tomorrow morning to Fairbanks.
He comes out to meet me, and our bags still aren't there...wha wha what? So we wait, and then... the bags from the people who were evacuated come through (I understand helping these people - they'd been through a lot - but we all had connections to catch at LAX! And the odd thing was, our bags were just sitting somewhere... they hadn't been put on the plane.... They'd known since 6:00 that we'd need our bags (all of us!) and yet our bags weren't here yet!
So while we were waiting, Grant called and changed our flight out of LAX to the 9:45 flight, so we'd be less time crunched. (We also heard that security and media would be making the airport extra busy tonight becasue the guy who ic accused of murdering JonBenet Ramsey is scheduled to land here from Thailand tonight at 9:30 - I misheard and thought it was some dignitary and relayed the information to someone else...oops.... hee hee)
So anyway our bags came out at like 7:40 and we grabbed a taxi (with an airline voucher, of course) and got to LAX at 8:00. It is 8:50 now and Grant just got back with Burger King (another good reason to take the late flight!
More later
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