Jennifer'sTrip

__JEN IN AMERICA __

THE FLIGHT So here we are on a giant plane with two storeys! Our plane is really interesting, instead of the normal boring QANTAS logo it is painted in an Aboriginal theme. Our plane (from the outside) looks like it has a giant bubble attached to it, but its really just the second storey. Installed in the back of the chair in front of you is a TV! On the TV you can watch the flight pattern and see how long there is left to go. You can also watch movies and selected TV shows! On the armrest is a device that you can pull out and use as the remote, and if you turn it over it becomes a phone! To use the phone you have to pay. What you do is key in the digits of the persons seat that you want to talk to and it connects you. Now we’re flying over the sea, its around 6:30pm in LA and 11:24 in Melbourne. Outside the plane its -44 ** ° ** celsius. We just had lunch and to be honest it looked and tasted pretty foul. It was canned meat with vegetables and a bread roll with butter. I’ve sort of gone physco because I ate a whole pack of mentos and a chocolate bar. We’re still flying over the sea and we notice that there is ice on the window.

LAX - THE BUSIEST AIRPORT IN THE WORLD LAX was GIANT! When we got off the plane we had to follow a series of paths into a big room where you had to wait in a queue to have your fingerprint taken to go and pickup your baggage. We had to wait for about half an hour to get on a bus that goes to our hotel. When we returned to LAX for our flight to Fort Lauderdale it was really confusing! There were rows of self serve check in machines and a line for the baggage drop. After we finished that we went up the escalator and entered a big security room and we got told that we had to take our shoes and jackets off while we walked through the scanner. It was boring after then, we just waited for our flight...

HOLLYWOOD

Our hotel in Hollywood is called the Renaissance. We had room number 1101 and it had a view of the Hollywood sign. 1101 has two king sized beds, a couch, a TV and a bathroom. The Renaissance has wifi for $12.95 per day and is conveniently located near Hollywood Boulevard. Yesterday we went to Rodeo Drive. We went into a store called Ralf Lauren and there wasn’t anything under $200 except candles. We finally went into Guess and found lots of things we could buy. When we purchased, we also received a free gift bag with a drink bottle and an iPhone4 case.

-THE WA LK OF FAME

The walk of fame was awesome! We saw many people we knew and lots that we didn’t! Some of the stars we saw include Danny Thomas (which I thought was rather funny), Bugs Bunny, Michael Jackson and more! There was also a booth that you take your picture next to a blank star and they edit your name into it and print it out as a photo!

**FOURT LAUDERDALE**

The flight from LA to Miami was 5 hours long. We then had to take a taxi to Ft. Lauderdale and it took about an hour and cost $90. By the time we got to the hotel (Courtyard Marriot) it was 11pm here so we didn’t notice that we could see the ship my cousin Jesse works on when it docks. The ship Jesse works on is called the Oasis Of The Seas and it’s the biggest ship in the world. By the way, Titanic is dwarfed by Oasis Of The Seas! The next day we got a 1 day pass to get on the ship and then Jes gave us a tour. I went on the zipline twice and its not that scary!

Hi Jennifer (and Jenny)! We are loving reading your travel blog (particularly me, I can picture so many of these places so clearly in my mind's eye) - keep it up. (feel free to delete this - I just wanted to touch base - I hope that all is going spectacularly well.) Do you mind if we forward some questions soon?