3 Days Later

Doug is currently napping so I'll give you a quick summary of the last 3 days!

Flight into LA was actually pretty good - not qantas level of service but nice enough. The plane itself was the new dreamliner which was great.

The plan was to sleep from 12am LA time through to when we landed at 7am. I'm not usually a good plane sleeper so I stared at Doug and plotted his death for a good 3hrs and managed to sleep for 4.

Customs was surprisingly quick considering what you'd expect, Douggie hadn't been through USA on his new passport so we had to go through the old system but we were still out of the airport with our bags in around 40 mins.

As soon as we stepped out of the door the hertz shuttle bus pulled up so away we went to get our car for the day.

They gave us a 2016 huyundai which was actually a nice car.

The theme park was roughly 40miles out of town and most of the driving was done on a freeway so not too difficult from a wrong side of the road perspective although my navigational skills leave something to be desired...

The park didn't open until 10.30 so given how quickly we cleared customs etc we had about an hour to suss out some breakky

The park is in the middle of nowhere so we could find was a dennys - not ideal. With only crap fast food around we walked in...at 9.20 am we were told that there was a 25 minute wait for a table,  the place was brimming all throwing back the worst looking food you could imagine.

We decided against waiting for crappy food and "upgraded" to the wendys across the road, our only other option. It did the trick cheap ish chicken burgers all set for the park.

When we arrived it looked just like wallys world from the lampoons HUGE car park funneling into an entrance.  Only difference being the huge crowd.
To combat this Doug and I bought a line skipper - which cost an aditional $70 he but it seriously made the day. The average queue was 60mins  we waited on average about 4 or 5 mins.

The park was just roller coasters.  The branding is loosely Warner Brothers but it was just a collection of 15 huge coasters some with 350ft drops! I went on all but 2 (being strapped in horizontally on a rollercoster is not my idea of fun) but was feeling very fragile and nauseas by the end of it!!

Drive home was going well until the phone died on us 20 mins from the rental place.

I remembered the exit kind of, but we needed to refuel the car and finding a servo  and then getting back to a hire car lot in LA blind proved to be eventful especially on the wrong side of the road. Made a mess of it and drove around LA for 20mins looking for hertz until we ended up tailgating one of their shuttle busses.

Given we arrived so early at the worst terminal at LAX we purchased some 24hr American Airlines lounge passes.

Was amazing lots of food/drink & quiet spots. A few hrs sleep and a potential Rob Kardashian sighting later we flew out to Miami. (UPDATE: Google has confirmed that Rob Kardashian and his Girlfriend were at LAX on the 12th flying out to Miami, yay. 1 Kardashian down, 50 to go)

Only a short 4 hr flight (of which we slept most of it) then a 4 hr layover in Miami. Because we bought the 24hr passes we went into the lounge again for breakfast (it was 8am) and... A SHOWER. I cannot tell you how amazing that shower was.

We then flew 1.5hrs and finally landed in Montego Bay, Jamaica. We got through customs quickly and were greated by the resort with a bus. Lucky as the resort is actually an hr away. After our resort tour, unpacking (my favourite part of a holiday!) and a nice long shower we headed to dinner.

I was asleep by 8.45 and didn't wake up until 10am!! Woke up alone as of course D had been exploring.

This morning we went Hobie Cat sailing and swimming in the amazing, clear, azure blue ocean then had the Jamaican speciality of Jerk Chicken for lunch - super tasty. We went and booked dinner at the fancy restraunt then Douggie needed a nap before the uber competitive ping pong tournament tonight.

He's just woken up and is in the competitive spirit. God I hope he wins if not he will sulk all through dinner!!

- K x