"A tale as old as time"
                                  -Beauty and the Beast

OK so after some blog neglect in which i have been getting into trouble from multiple sources here we go with the first update from the USA.

I'm going to start from the begging and try not to miss too much out. so as i have mentioned previously i flew out from Sydney at 7.ooam on the 4th of Jan. i was flying Air New Zealand to Auckland. i was very worried about my luggage allowance but the check in lady was very nice and i came just under the allowance. thank goodness for that. so after a nice three hour flight i arrive in Auckland. let me just say WOW what a small international airport. first thing i do is find somewhere to sit and possibly sleep since I'm stuck there for seven hours. they had these cool egg looking chairs and i managed to nab one as soon as i arrived. it is here for the next seven hours where i sit looking at a pharmacy and nap. also i would like to add i resent paying for wi fi in airports take note Auckland and LAX.

anywhose nothing really happened at Auckland. i met up with my flight buddy Suzi right before boarding the plane for LA. Air NZ usually offer a good flight service between Auckland and LAX but the plane had been downsized to an older model so some of the perks like skycouch and USB connectivity where lacking. it didn't bother me all that much but OMG where people angry on that flight. yes we had seat re allocations but seriously people where furious. the flight was fine. the food was good ( I'm one of those weird people that enjoys air plane food) and best of all i had a seat free beside me so i could stretch out a little.

Arriving in LAX i imagined i would be overwhelmed. i was rather very level headed. with Suzi (who is a travelling pro and knows LAX better than Melbourne airport) we set out for customs and immigration. we were lucky and landed in a terminal that was rather empty so there was basically no line and we easily got our bags and breezed through customs and immigration. this is where i said good buy to Suzi as she was staying a night over in LA while i continued onto Orlando. i drop my bags at the international transfers drop and venture outside to go to the American Airlines terminal where i have to check in again. i ask where to go straight away as this place is huge. i grab the shuttle an am there in no time at all. i go to check in and the lady asks me if I'm going back to NZ. i say no confused. she sorts it out and I'm on my way to my gate. i am slightly convinced though my bags may be on their way back to NZ with the little confusion.

so after a slight wait of five hours I'm about to board the AA flight to Dallas Fort Worth, Texas. the PA that due to the flight being full they would like to check some carry on bags to make room. i didn't mind so i checked my backpack leaving me with just my laptop. we board the plane and off we go. the flight was only four hours and wasn't too bad. the plane was indeed full though. i slept pretty much the entire flight and woke towards the end. i had a connecting flight from DFW with AA onto Orlando with 40mins time to make the flight.

Due to AA thinking our flight was running late which we were not they gave our gate away.so we proceeded to our secondary gate in which there was a late departing flight stuck at. they made us sit on the runway for 20mins. finally they allocated a third gate for us to go to. we were told those with connecting flights that they would be held for us as they knew we were now late. it takes forever to disembark off flights as it is. so i race off and start heading for my connecting flight. i notice a girl who was on my AA and ANZ flights we both stop to ask an agent where to go and she informs us our flight left without us. FML. so this is how i met Hannah. we were both stranded in Texas by AA. the agent directed us to someone else who booked us another flight for the morning and gave us a distress rate for the Hilton hotel. so we had to pay $75 for a nights stay for something that wasn't our fault. did i forget to mention that they wouldn't give us our luggage as they didn't know where it was. so we both had no clothes and turns out it was 3 degrees in Texas that night.

The Hilton was lovely though i must say. we both enjoyed our rooms with king beds. our flight was early so we had to be up at like 5am which sucked. we ended up getting to Orlando finally and best of all our bags arrived too! so i chose to get the mears shuttle to the holiday inn which is right across the road from where i needed to check in to Disney on the 7th.

I'm going to love you and leave you now. i will post again later with an update on the first week with training, going to disneyworld for the first time etc.