Day 3

We left for the beach around 9 Saturday morning. Linda decided to take us to Redondo Beach, she thinks that is were my parents usually took us when we came years ago..sorry, it didn't look familiar. Anyway, we walked around the pier and then headed for the beach. Lena hated the sand from the second her shoes touched it and hated it when we stuck her toes in the water...so we headed out for a car ride to see a few more sights of LA...for whatever reason I was stuck in a nostalgic moments all day...Fry's, the pier, Linda's old apartment, the Del Taco that my cousins and my family would eat a ton of tacos at after Church....so we went to see those. Lena got in a little nap and we finished out our morning with In and Out Burger for Lunch. After we finished packing we headed out to the airport. Linda said on the way to the airport what would be come our quote for the rest of the day....Most of me doesn't want to see you, but a little part says it would be okay. So we headed into what could be a long wait. We quickly were told that whether or not we made the flight our luggage would be going...lucky luggage...after a full pat down and search of our carry-ons (including Lena) we were clear to go to our gate to wait. They had called for all rows to board and I said to Eric, I think Linda will be seeing us. Just a couple minutes later the guy at the desk said Folsland...thank goodness I heard him, Eric was off in La-la land..probably dreaming about the Angels Stadium. Although I was in such a panic at that point that I couldn't function...Eric had to say twice to me yes we are getting on the plane...We are going to HAWAII!!! We quickly made a few calls once we got on the plane...My aunt, Eric's mom, Northwest to see if we could book a flight home(oh yes we have to fly standby back to LA...great), and Melissa(BTW, people carry on their luggage because they don't want to have it go and not them and no you don't take it to the gate). We ended up with a window and an aisle seat and had expected when the delayed Ohio flight arrived we would have to move around...no one ever sat in that seat so Lena had her own seat. It was great. She did much better this flight than the last and she sleep for 1 1/2 - 2 hours and only woke up I think because of the yucky turbulence and the flight attendant coming on "WE ARE EXPERIENCING SOME TURBULENCE" Great thanks, I couldn't tell. Anyway after a few minutes it settled down and Eric's brother Michael and Ryan were at the airport to pick us up. We went down to Wakiki Beach to get something to eat...Cheeseburger in Paradise...and the fries were awesome. I think the three of us in the backseat fell asleep on the way home to Michael's. We went quickly to bed after a long day...but we made it to Hawaii...