CYCLONE TOMAS DELAYS TRIP

Hi sorry the message was only a short one last night the battery ran out on the laptop.Well the story is we are still in Los Angeles and staying at the radisson and the reason is when we went to check in at the air pacific desk last night the young lady told us that there would be no flights going out to Fiji because the island was being hit by a cyclone ,we thought she was joking at first but i suppose they are trained not to joke about those kind of things.Now as the day went yesterday we had a lovely drive down from pismo beach along the coast ,more wonderful scenery and stopped in Santa Barbara at the harbour for lunch,now Santa Barbara is really Spanish all the buildings have got that Spanish look to them and the place is immaculate,what i did find a bit strange though was when i went to the gents toilet on the waterfront there was no doors on all of the gents cubicles,i found that a bit strange and had a look closer and sure enough they had all been built purposely without doors (glad i only wanted a pee).So off we went again following the coast to Santa Monica where we went back on to the freeway and straight to the Alamo car hire depot to return the car(they were very efficient there).Anyway this is where Betty and i had decided that we would dispose of our top coats ,now not just wanting to dump them in the rubbish i approached one of the guys at the car hire depot and asked him if they would be of any use to him,well his eyes lit up when he saw mine but he did turn his nose up a bit when he saw bettys ,anyway we jumped on the shuttle bus that took us round to the terminal.And that is where we were told that there would be no flights out to Fiji because of the bad weather (now we had just given our coats away bloody marvellous).So the Room at the hotel is lovely and we are making the most of it the weather is great and the food here is good ,what more do we want.Will return to the check in desk this afternoon to see if we can get a flight out today.speak soon betty and brian x