10-11-05 9:45pm
Now sitting in LAX waiting for our 11:30pm red-eye back to PIT. Travel(tm). Yesterday we were up, breakfasted, packed and out of our room by 10am to have a nice day of sitting in the bar and grabbing our final lunch with a couple of G.O.s, including Ed. It turns out that Ed climbs the mountain trail pretty regularly and he shared our view of the asshole guide we met on the trail. :) We also got a CD with the few pictures we'd gotten taken by the professional photographer who roams the Club. At 3:30 we hopped the shuttle to Vaitapee, then the 4pm boat to BOB, then our 5:45pm ATR72 flight to PPT via Reatea, where we cooled our heels(along with clearing the pearls through customs) until our surprisingly comfortable 11:45pm redeye into LAX. We didn't make it quite early enough to catch the 11:40am to PIT, so we stayed with our "check into LAX Marriott for 9 hours" plan. It was sooooo nice to have a comfy bed in which to rest instead of an LAX chair. But now we're here, and in about 6 hours or so we should be on the ground at PIT, driving home to two cute little kitties. Let keep hoping those 3 first class seats stay unsold... ;)