LA, here I come!

3 movies, 2 meals, 1 cereal bar, 1 cranberry juice in glass mug*, 2 teas and 5 glasses of water later I had been displaced by some 15,560 kms from home** and suddently, I see the friendly face of Jim waving to me as I push my luggage towards the LAX arrivals! Woohoo. It was great to see him and Lin.

Refreshing to the eyes were also sights of palm trees, which I must admit, I haven't seen to my heart's content in quite some while after my visit to goa! The freeways are big, they drive on the wrong side of the road, everything is HUGE, traffic is bad and the beach views from Jim and Lin's beach house in San Pedro (pronounced 'San Peedro') are awesome!

We had some brillant time catching up and it was impressive to see Jim go through all of our final TP report in an evening! I took a walk by the sea front and also sent Jim and Lin searching the streets for me as they were worried that they told me the wrong street to turn. I understand their concern now after a few days in LA, where one wrong turn would certainly add xxx miles to your journey, but the place was too unfamiliar for me to even think I was lost!

Next day, Ramon arrived and we went to greet him. We lost Jim and Lin momentarily... I got their name announced on all terminals and just as officials decided to send search parties out at the LAX (LA international airport, or one of them anyway), we found each other!

Also, my first day at the office - its cosy and lovely.

* I bumped into a flight attendant whilst I came out of the restrooms on the plane. She asked if she could help... I said, oh yes please, could I have possibily have some cranberry juice? She poured it into a glass globlet for me - I walk two steps and another attendant told me off, as it is 'against international air law' .... I explained what had just happened to another less ferrocious looking attendant and she politely asked me not to repeat it ever again. The whole episodes left me wondering which exact part of the whole thing was illegal, but I think its the glass bit ...

** crude approximation carried out by bee on the top of the eiffel tower.