{"id":391,"date":"2011-04-24T10:10:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T14:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/?p=391"},"modified":"2012-04-03T00:46:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T04:46:49","slug":"melbourne-to-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne to LA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We left for the airport around 7am and the airport was jam packed with people, we thought it was because of the Easter weekend, but we also learnt that a number of flights had been cancelled the day before.<\/p>\n<p>We were lucky to be upgraded to Premium Economy so thanks to my father for arranging it.<\/p>\n<p>You forget how long that flight is, it just seems to go on forever and ever, but lucky the seats were nice and big and the in-flight entertainment was also extensive. Although VA forgot my special meal, the food wasn&#8217;t too bad, but overall, I can highly recommend VA.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived in LAX thinning it was going to take hours to get through immigration and customs, but the queue was short and we didn&#8217;t have to wait long. The guy at immigration didn&#8217;t have any sense of humour but we moved through without any issues. Our bags were some of the first to get out and as we made our way from customs, I saw most of the people from the aircraft still waiting for their bags.<\/p>\n<p>We got through customs without any issue and made our way for the rental car company. We picked up our car and headed to the hotel. Bron did the driving and I did the navigation. I don&#8217;t know how many times she turned the windscreen wipers on to turn the corner, but for the entire day, it must have been at least 20 times.<\/p>\n<p>We couldn&#8217;t check in early as there were no rooms available, so we walked to Century City and had some breakfast and a look at some of the shops. Boy some things are very cheap and with the dollar up, even cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>We checked in the hotel at noon and after a shower, then we hit the streets and went to Rodeo drive.<\/p>\n<p>Dinner at www.thepinktaco.com which was magnificent and an early night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We left for the airport around 7am and the airport was jam packed with people, we thought it was because of the Easter weekend, but we also learnt that a number of flights had been cancelled the day before. We were lucky to be upgraded to Premium Economy so thanks to my father for arranging &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/?p=391\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Melbourne to LA&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}