Quick (ish) Trip to LA

February 25-27th

Our niece, Zoe was in a production of Seussical the Musical so we decided we had to go see it. The trip was supposed to be a quick visit. Thanks to Joel, we were able to get stand-by flights from Charlotte to LA. We left Charlotte Saturday morning and landed in LA in the afternoon. We grabbed a quick lunch at In N Out and headed to see family. We found out that Jac had a soccer game so we headed to go see her play.

 After the soccer game the girls got cleaned up and we headed to dinner at Nelsons at Terranea before going to the show. This was such a neat restaurant that over looked the the Pacific Ocean. Beautiful.

Zoe's show was so cute, she did an amazing job as a "Bird Girl". It was so fun to see what an amazing young woman she is turning into. I couldn't be more proud of her.

Jed and I got up and out the next morning at 4am to fly stand-by on the 7:30am flight. Unfortunately, there weren't any seats for us so we missed that flight. The next flight wasn't until 11:40 so we set off on foot to explore what was around the outside of LAX. We were excited to be able to get a picture we always talk about getting but never did it...

We headed back to the airport with plenty of time to chat the 11:40am flight but there were no seats for us. Some with the 1:30 flight. The last flight of the day out was the red eye at 10:45pm and they told us straight up that we wouldn't make that flight either. So we decided to just rent another car and enjoy the rest of our day in LA and try again the next day. We had the chance to go visit our old stomping grounds. We spend the afternoon driving around Glendale and then walking around Americana and bought clothes for the next day. We got in touch with Eric, Audrey and David and they were all able to make it to dinner with us at Panda Inn. Eric's parents were even in town and joined us for dinner. It meant the world to us that they were able to find time to hang out for a little while.

The next morning, we tried again to flight out of LA to Charlotte. There wasn't any room on the 7:30am flight again today but they told us we could fly to Phoenix and then to Charlotte. It was a long day of traveling. In total we missed 7 flights and spent almost 2 full days in airports but it was absolutely worth all of it. I would definitely do it again, only next time, I don't know that I would fly stand by.