{"id":4009,"date":"2023-04-16T04:57:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T08:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/?p=4009"},"modified":"2023-04-16T04:57:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T08:57:09","slug":"spring-vacation-2023-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/?p=4009","title":{"rendered":"Spring Vacation 2023 – Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I set my alarm to get up in time to shower, get breakfast in the lobby at 7:00, and then head to the Burbank airport to hopefully sort out our return flight. \u00a0Amanda was already up and decided to accompany me. \u00a0The drive to the airport was only 10 minutes from our hotel and on a Saturday morning there wasn\u2019t much traffic. \u00a0We got to the airport only to find no one at the JetBlue counter. \u00a0I inquired of another airline attendant and was informed that there usually isn\u2019t someone there until 2 hours before a flight, but that I could call airport operations (yes, using the white courtesy phone) and ask them to page someone in case they might be somewhere else in the building. \u00a0I did so, but no one came, so we returned to the hotel. \u00a0I made a last stab at JetBlue by trying their online chat. \u00a0Still no change, but I was told that we could make a \u201csame day\u201d change to our reservation. \u00a0I said \u201csame day\u201d doesn\u2019t do us much good if our flight leaves at 12:55am as we will already be at the airport and behind security by midnight! \u00a0\u201cUnless,\u201d I said, \u201c\u2018same day\u2019 means \u2018within 24 hours\u2019.\u201d \u00a0She said that is what it means, and so I will set my alarm for 1:00am tonight and try one last time to get our flight changed. \u00a0<\/p>\n

We headed down to Long Beach to meet up with Kevin and Ethan, Amanda\u2019s step-brother. \u00a0We had lunch at Lucille\u2019s<\/a> followed by some browsing at the nearby Barnes & Noble. \u00a0After that we left Kevin and Ethan and continued on to Huntington Beach where we joined my cousin Alan Rowlson for drinks and conversation. \u00a0Alan is my first cousin once removed\u2014a member of my parents\u2019 generation. \u00a0We left Alan and headed to the home of Jane and John. \u00a0Jane is Alan\u2019s ex-wife and mother to Jason, my second cousin. \u00a0We enjoyed their company along with Jason and his wife, Linda, and their children, Rex and Lucy. \u00a0Jane, a Peru, NY native, made us Michigans!<\/p>\n

We then headed back to Glendale\u2014a trip that took far longer than it should because, well, this is L.A.! \u00a0I said it the first time I was ever here and it\u2019s still true: If New York is the city that never sleeps, L.A. is the city that never gets where it\u2019s going. \u00a0Amanda joined her Dad to go see a movie while I stayed in our hotel room to relax, feeling a little drained. \u00a0As I type this it is after 1:00am and I am waiting in the online chat with JetBlue to see if we can get our flight rescheduled.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: We\u2019ll, the alternate flight we wanted is now sold out. \u00a0The only other option is flying from a different airport (ONT) overnight Monday into Tuesday and enduring an 8-hour layover at JFK. \u00a0That and arranging to drop the rental car off at a different location than where we picked it up.<\/p>\n

Vacations are great. \u00a0Traveling sucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I set my alarm to get up in time to shower, get breakfast in the lobby at 7:00, and then head to the Burbank airport to hopefully sort out our return flight. \u00a0Amanda was already up and decided to accompany me. \u00a0The drive to the airport was only 10 minutes from our hotel and on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4011,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions\/4011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}