Flying to LA

Over an hour late taking off from Heathrow but then a very uneventful, smooth and comfortable flight with Air New Zealand to Los Angeles. Some decent NZ fizz and Pinot Noir was served and the time seemed to go fairly quickly. We had to sit or lie slightly apart but quite independently we both seemed to watch pretty much the same videos, including Ab Fab, Fawlty Towers and Yes Minister! Must get the psychoanalyst in to look at that. Contrary to many experiences passing through the Homeland Security checks was reasonably quick which was certainly helped by us being some of the first people off the plane. Suitably digitally fingerprinted and photographed we headed off via the courtesy bus to the Marriott which was only a few blocks away but the area around the airport (LAX) was incredibly busy