It was a Sunday and we had heard that traffic heading from Vegas to LA could be really bad so we wanted to get an early start.
We left the hotel just after 8 and started on our way. We noticed loads of things on the way that we had meant to visit...like New York New York!
The journey was pretty uneventful. We did notice more traffic on the roads than we had seen up until now.
We were going to stop and get some lunch on the way but didn't find anywhere interesting and before we knew it we had arrived at the hotel.
I had booked the Hilton Garden Inn Montebello as I had some hotel points to use.
We actually arrived about lunchtime but they allowed us to check into our room early. So we dropped off the bags and went in search of food.
We ended up at a McDonalds as by this point we were really hungry!
We were also quite tired from our busy trip and the early start so we went back to the room for a bit. I read some of my book while Rob had a rest.
I did think about trying to investigate around LA but we didn't have the energy so instead we decided to spend some time by the pool.
By now it was getting close to dinner time. The menu in the hotel wasn't particularly interesting and we didn't really want to go far in search of food. We had a look in the sat nav and managed to find pizza nearby so off we went :)
We then had a lazy evening watching TV and eating pizza!
We had some issues with our return flight whilst we were away - they had moved the flight home and sent us a very odd email. Turned out it was delayed by a couple of hours - but we had to return the car at a certain time so we were set for a dull wait at the airport.
We got up late in the morning and slowly headed towards the airport . We stopped to get lunch quite close to the airport and then went to drop the car back.
Car dropped off and we headed back to the airport on the shuttle bus.
We checked in ridiculously early - which did at least get us seated together (we had lost our prebooked seats when they changed the flight time).
Security was typically annoying - they demanded (not asked) that shoes be removed.
I wouldn't mind if they:
a) put this on a sign; and
b) ensured that the floor was clean and dry
Once through security we were disappointed to find that there were only a couple of shops and nothing to do. They did at least have very slow free wifi to help keep us entertained.
We got a coffee and a snack and bought some sweets to take back to work and finally it was time to get on the plane and go home.
Generally the flight was good, although the people sitting in front of us had to be asked to put their seats up so that we could eat our food (so rude!)
We arrived back only about an hour later than planned and the parents picked us up and took us home.
You will notice that there are no photos in this part of the blog (cos we didn't take any!) so here are a couple from World of Color to brighten it up :)
So that's me all done. We had a great trip and are now looking forward to two Disney World trips next year!
All of my photos can be found here: All the photos
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