Up at like 5 am for the airport.
No fun travelling when your nose is running like MAD!!
Pouring rain when we were leaving. That’s alright—I knew I was heading into sunshine & heat.
We had the rudest United Airlines ticket agent. First off, the flight to Denver was pretty full. We’d originally booked our tickets through Air Canada, but because it was linked with UAL, we had to go to the United ticket counter. Didn’t realize that their baggage rules overrode our itinerary, which said 2 pieces. The rude lady wanted to charge us for 1 bag (UAL rules are 1 free bag, 2nd piece = $25). We were at the airport on time, and near the back of the line. But they only had 2 people working. At the last minute, they got a third agent. By the time we got to the front, they were already boarding the plane, and we still had to go through customs. So the agent was stressed because her people were rushing her (ha ha!). She weighed our bags, (Sherwin was with us too), and proceeded to tell us that she’s gonna charge us for 3. We weren’t impressed, but didn’t take too much time to argue or anything. She was straight-up rude with her attitude though. As she’s trying to print out luggage tags & boarding passes & charge the credit card, her computer freezes. LOL. Plus, the customs people kept radioing her, as well as the person at the gate, wondering what the hold up was. She was so rude, and stressed, that while her co-worker was dealing with a customer, she proceeded to waltz up and try to use her computer terminal. Then caught herself “oh, were you using this?”. Umm…DUH! That nice agent was only serving a customer. In the end, she had to get her friend to help her tag and print things. She also only charged us for 2 bags. Oh, she’s also gotten mad at Sherwin & I because we were discussing the fact that UAL had poor customer service. Nothing directed to her, no yelling, no cussing, not even bitterness or worry that we’d miss our flight. Just disappointment that they’re gonna charge us for something when our itinerary clearly says another.
We were the last people to board. Flew through customs without any questions at all though, which was cool.
Stuck in Denver for 4 hrs. Good thing the airport terminal was pretty big.
Welcome to sunny California. Yay—heat!! Jono picked up the rental. Toyota Sienna. Great way to test drive a minivan.
Went to our accommodations for week 1. A condo on the Loma Linda University campus. Sounds like it’s a place where they let recovering surgery patients stay. Cute place. No central air though, just A/C wall units. One was just off the dining room. The other was in our bedroom. My parents suffered a bit. Mind you, they at least had a patio, complete with sliding door.