Monday afternoon/evening
Back in the room, Jerry said we had extended our check-out to 1 pm (phew), and Tami and Ines were headed off to the Beach for one last session. Since I had forgotten my phone, no one knew where I was, since my favorite black cons were in the room too. Jerry and Tim thought I had gotten my own room, while Ines thought I was hiding in the room somewhere... and even looked in the closet for me haha. sorry everyone! Jerry was watching the new espn sports quiz show thing, and I was all packed up, so I took my stuff downstairs with me and decided to play one more session with 30 minutes to kill. Oops, bad call, i was in such a rush and worried about time, that I lost $100 haha.
Jerry, Ines, Tami, April, and I took a cab together to the airport, just as it started to rain. To Jerry's utter dismay, our flight turned out to be delayed. Tami was on another flight, so she flew out with no problem. The Southwest attendant kept lying to us, giving us random excuses, but eventually came out with the truth that the plane was in Ontario (by LA) and had been grounded due to lightening in our area. We watched as our 3 pm departure time fluctuated to 4:30 pm on the screen and then was said to be maybe even 5 pm. Right as Jerry was trying to convince us to just say screw it and get another night at Mandalay (since it would be cheapt), at 3:45 pm, the attendant came on again to say the plane had just take off and would arrive in 15 minutes. The passengers that came off the plane were SO grumpy looking, as their 15 minute flight had turned into an over an hour sit-n-wait in the plane. Peter, Jerry, and I shared a row, and I was lights out as soon as I sat down. I remember waking up at 5 pm to look outside and realize we hadn't taken off yet. Jerry was upset again heh. I fell back asleep until the plane landed. Oh yea, forgot to mention that our flight to Vegas was so smooth, including the landing, cause the pilot was young (therefore had gone thru more simulated flight training), while this flight had a bumpy landing cause it was an older pilot, probably ex-air force or something.
After a stop over at the Verizon store, where Jerry got denied getting a new phone on the super discount, cause he was still 2 weeks from being eligible, we went to eat at Koryo's. Pang, Ines, and Tim, came out to meet up with Peter, Jerry, and myself. We got hooked up on the pa jun and a kim chee chigae cause it was my favorite waitress heh. Pang told the story of his "horrible" experience with 2 little monsters that sat next to him, the wors being a little racist girl from the midwest that "ching chonged" him. He still had fun with them tho, trying to hook the two little rascals up by playing the "he likes you, she likes you" game hehe. Ines brought out the best surprise, the mini ipod that they had all gotten for me! The whole restaurant turned to stare at me while I unwrapped the outside packaging, hehe, envious! Thanks so much! I picked up the Koryo's bill as a small token of my appreciation. This has been the best vacation!
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