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The islands can only be reached by boat, and they had different options available. You can on the islands or you can take a boat tour that goes around all the islands, which is what I decided to do since I was limited on time. I had originally planned on spending the day here, but it got pushed back because I decided to go to Disney yesterday.
After I got back, I got in my car and drove to Santa Monica Mountains NRA’s visitor center. When Jaime and I visited the mountains last weekend, we didn’t go to the visitor center so I couldn’t get the stamp for my book. I hurried in there, got the stamp, and left. By this time I realized I would be rushing to catch my flight in time. My flight left at 4:20, but I didn’t count on LA traffic. I also didn’t count on the fact that the rental car place was separate from the airport. So I had to turn in my car, get on their bus to the gate, go through security, and then take another bus to my gate. I was panicking because I didn’t think I would make it in time. Luckily, I made it with 10 minutes to spare before they started boarding. After that, it was smooth sailing to San Francisco.
It worked out very well. As soon as the show ended, I was part of the first wave of people going to their car so I didn’t have to wait a super long time, maybe 40 minutes all together. When I got to my car, I hurried to the exit and then started my drive to a hotel by the Channel Islands, which is where I’m going tomorrow. It was a mistake to get a hotel so far away. Getting to Disney early and walking around drained me more than expected. Plus all of the late nights working this past week didn’t help. I shouldn’t have been driving. I could feel myself falling asleep. I tried everything to stay awake, rolling down my windows and blaring the music. Finally I made it to my hotel around midnight CA time and could get to sleep. I later found a yellow line on my rental car, like the yellow pain on concrete barriers. Jaime said she didn’t hit anything and I don’t remember seeing it when I got the car. I think I sideswiped something on that drive, so I’m lucky to be alive.
The two Harry Potter rides were opposite each other, so I decided to ride the Flight of the Hippogriff first. It was a traditional roller coaster ride that went around the pumpkin patch and around Hagrid’s hut. I got to skip the line since I paid extra for the Universal Express, which let me skip the line on 3 rides. It was a very short ride.
I’m in California this week for work. My client is actually in San Francisco, but they are still shut down due to Covid. Since the full team can’t go to their office, we are instead meeting up at the Orange County office. Since we finally made it to California, Jaime and I decided to fly out early and enjoy ourselves a little. I had to take the GMAT the morning of the flight in order to get into college, so I decided to take an afternoon flight. Jaime decided to take the same flight as well. We both flew into LAX, because we wanted to see Los Angeles.
We found a restaurant that looked good online, but when we got there the parking lot was full. We circled for a while but couldn’t find a place to park. So we decided to continue on and eat after going to Griffith Observatory. We found the lane to turn into the Observatory and it took forever to get up there. There was a huge line! We waited in it for over an hour. Apparently there was a concert going on at the amphitheater down the hill from the Observatory. By the time we realized it and wanted to give up, it was too late. We literally could not escape the line of cars since we were blocked in on all sides. We finally got to the top where the observatory was, and there was no parking. We finally gave up and headed back down. All of that time waiting for nothing. We tried to stop at a Raising Cane, and the line was wrapped around the building and all the way out on the street. We just went back to the hotel because we were exhausted by that point.
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