We departed from Jakarta 8 a.m. in the morning. It was like 5 hours of flight to Hong Kong, and after we landed in the airport, we went to the lounge, took a shower, and refreshed ourselves until 4 pm for the LA flight. According to the itinerary, it would be like 12 and a half hours flight.
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| Brace yourself, 12 hours flight |
My mom once said, long-haul flight is excruciating. She went to NY last time for dad's Boston marathon, and she slept for like two days in order to adapt with NY's time. I have never experience a jet lag before, cause I know how to dodge it: you must sleep for like 7 hours or more in the flight, like my dad. He has this ability to sleep right directly after he sit down and fasten his seat belt. Envy.
Nothing special happened in the flight, mainly sleeping, and we arrived in LAX. We were greeted by a long queue line for the immigration, and a bit disorganized, plus, the officers were all like robots, with no expressions in their face and arrogant. For those who haven't been to LAX and in a connecting flight, here's a tip for you: remember to bring your luggage as all luggage are required to stop at LAX first, after that drop it off at the check-in counter. We didn't know that, so we almost left our luggage there.
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| LAX: convenient my posterior! |
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| LAX or Tom Bradley International |
We dropped off the luggage in the American Airline counter and continued our way to the domestic terminal. It is a security requirement to take off the shoes when screening, which is unusual for us. We don't have to take off our shoes in Hong Kong, Taipei, or Jakarta. Later, we took a shower in the lounge and relax a bit until our 8 pm flight toward Las Vegas. And guess who I met there? Lady Gaga. LOL. Kidding. It wasn't her, but this waitress in the lounge looks exactly like her, just a little bit shorter. Too bad I didn't ask her for a photo.
The flight to Las Vegas is approximately 45 minutes, and I found out that their American Airlines flight attendants are mostly middle-aged, very different from the attendants from Cathay Pacific.
It felt like a blink of an eye, then we landed in Las Vegas airport, or McCarran International Airport. A bit cold, and my thin jacket didn't help at all.
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| Vegas, baby! |
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| My dad, looking exhausted. |
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| Vegas indeed, slot machines everywhere |
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