Day 1

Things started off a little rough. Went to bed about 1:30am. Set the alarm for 5:45am. Woke up at 7:10am. Flight takes off at 7:10am. That's a problem.

Called NWA to see what in the world a person should do if they actually SLEEP THROUGH their flight... They encouraged me to get to the airport ASAP because the counter crew can transfer me to another flight. So, to the airport we went.

Got on a 10:15am flight to Detroit - took off about 20 minutes late, which meant we got into Detroit a little late, which meant that I got to RUN to the opposite side of the airport to catch my next flight. Ahhh...Good times. About 4 hours later I landed in L.A.

After an extended visit with the 405, we got to Aunt Eileen's in Huntington Beach. We talked with her and waited for our cousins to get there to go out for dinner. Ate the best fish I've ever had in my life at King's (thanks Mark, Wendy & John!) and laughed HARD with those guys - they are HYSTERICAL!! After hanging out with those guys, we drove down to Katie's apartment and loaded up the rest of her stuff in the back of the Jeep. Not a pretty sight.

We crashed HARD when we got back to Aunt Eileen's, then got up this morning to re-pack the car and get ready to go.