All is well that ends well!

Well, I made it home, but barely. Saturday was our last day in Holloywood, we did some of the typical tourist things, such as visit the Chinese Theatre (stuck my limbs in Kevin Costners hand and footprint moldings) and Kodak Theatre (where they were setting up for the Oscars this week). We got to go inside the Kodak theatre, but not into the actual oscar theatre. We tried to bribe the security guards, but they thought Canadian money was play money...Then we took an hours ride to Santa Monica Beach and to the world famous Santa Monica Pier (why it is famous, we do not know...) All it was was a pier with its own amusement park, but nothing too interesting. And the beach was just like a regular old beach, long, but covered with a few needles, lots of garbage and what really ruined it for me was the big huge parking lot paved right ontop of the beach. We now figure that New Zealand really spoiled us from enjoying the rest of the world. We then shopped in Santa Monica and Melrose and we did discover our new favorite store "Anthropologie". We drove through Beverly Hills, not at all what it is cracked up to be! So our time in Los Angeles was short, but obviously not short enough.

Sunday we were 2 hours late leaving LAX, and were sitting on the plane for those 2 hours (not a Jet Blue flight...) because the plane had no running water and someone needed totake 2 hours to get a big enough supply of wetnaps so that people could wash their hands...So we only had 2 hours in our stopover in Toronto, so I figured we would miss ourt connection. The pilot made up some time, and left us with 20 minutes to go through customs, pick up and recheck our luggage and go through security again. So needless to say, we were told on arrival that we had missed it. So as we went to rebook for the next available flight, they told us that our flight to Halifax had been delayed due to not having scheduled any pilots to fly the plane. We had an extra half hour to make it, and we did, and then we sat on that plane for an hour waiting for them to pull pilots off another plane to come and fly ours. We made it home 2 hours later, at about 3 am, but all our luggage made it so we were all smiles. What was waiting for me at home? A hot turkey dinner with all the trimmings! All is well that ends well...

Here are just a few of my favorite pics from the trip that I took...you will all see the rest this weekend I am sure! enjoy! Thank you all for reading my blog! I loved reading your comments as much as I hope you enjoyed reading about us :o) Thank you! LB was askin...I took all the scenery shots and Eddie and Melissa took the ones with me in it.