Luck strikes again in the USA

Las Vegas...4hr drive back to LA easy enough? Seen the forecast on TV, a run of 4 storms in or heading towards LA, we are from England a bit of wind and rain doesn't phase us, it's like our birth right to be in weather like that.

We fly back home on Sunday so can't hang out in LV until it clears, plus have motels booked and paid for in LA so don't want to waste that.. You know what we are glad we left when we did as no more than 2hrs after us the interstate roads were closed down.. So get this, a bit of rain through the desert,then a bit more, then more, then sleet, then hail, fog settling, visability about 1/4 mile, a little dusting of snow (very rare for such low elevations), then more snow, it's starting to settle now, snow on sand is quite a bizarre sight actually.. Admiring the beauty, taking some photos out the window then within a blink of your eye visability drops to 5 feet, hazard lights on everywhere, cars skidding across the road, snow is dumping, wind is howling, snow settled at least 6inches within the 1st half hour.. We have a stack of snow on the bonnet, the windscreen wiper on the drivers side resembles a wet sponge being rubbed on the windscreen reducing any remaining visability to a wet blur, this results in trusting my efficient co-driver/navigator Jo to narrate the road conditions, cars, traffic etc, leaning out the window every so often for a combination of reasons, 1) to try and work out where my lane is as the lines are covered with snow, 2) to work out where the barrier and central reservation are so we don't collide with it 3) to stop myself falling asleep after a week in Vegas and 4/5hrs driving...and yeah and to scrape the mounds of snow off the windscreen which were stopping the wipers from moving at all by this stage..

Are you getting the picture????

Once again we are having hilarious fits of slightly frightened laughter about the fact that natural disasters seem to follow us around?!? Volcanos in ecuador, flashfloods in australia.. Need I go on!

So, my point us the north if LA has been evacuated due to mud and land slides, downtown is under flood warnings and south LA is being terrified by trees being torn out at the roots by the wind. FYI we are currently holed up in starbucks in downtown wondering if we are going to see our car float past at any given moment? The snow has ceased here but torrential rain and wind prevails...

I think the airport is closed at the moment so fingers crossed we have a weather window on Sunday so we can get our flight, you might see us on the news otherwise... Two homeless Brits, high as a kite after living in starbucks for 4 days are causing chaos at LAX trying to swim to the plane...

Oh dear...

Repulsive flight from UK to LA

You know us, nothing is ever completely smooth running... The question is do you really want to hear about it? For the first time we were superbly organised in our preparations for our annual excitement, for some unknown reason we were put through our paces before our departure with a mixture of flat car batteries, family members locking themselves out of their homes and a late night trip to a&e for a massive ear infection the night before our flight, this time it was candis turn. If you recollect our honeymoon then you know what we are talking about...

Getting through the above and slightly jaded as a result we head to the airport with tons of time to spare as all flights to the states are under massive security scrutiny since that idiot set himself on fire. Arrive, check in, go through security, eat sushi, head to gate, join long queue, finally get to front to have our tickets checked to be informed that the inflight entertainment was broken, nothing they could do, suggest you buy a book to take on the flight! Yeah, cheers, thanks for that 11.5hrs of Reading?! Unlikely! I'm sure part of the point of flying is to fall into a gormless, numb, brain-dead world watching a movie marathon, so that when you land at your destination you can't for the life of you remember a single film title from the last 6 movies you have somehow managed to view without really realising it...sound familiar? Needless to say the flight was not the most stimulating, add to that the fact that poor Jo had a fat, hairy, cold filled, old fart sat next to her (no I'm not talking about me, the OTHER side!) he spent much of the flight, coughing, sneezing & hocking in her ear, the thrilling part was that whenever he sneezed a cloud of his dandraft enveloped jo's head & left her looking like someone had poured parmasan cheese over her jumper, utterley repulsive! Add to this the fact that there were a couple of jocks sat infront of us who were having a very enthusiastic conversation for much of the flight about power sports which involved them jumping around in their seats like baboons on speed, this wouldn't necessarily be a problem if jos knees weren't taking the full impact? The bonus of being tall in economy! Brilliant.

At the end of the day you will always put up with these things because you know you're going on holiday and it will all be worth while once you get there. In any other environment, you know for a fact that would absolutely NOT even consider it! We are in LA, it's sunny and 72 degrees, worth every minute of dandruff....