Hurry up and wait....

We had a lovely visit to Laguna Beach, saw my Dad as mentioned yesterday, and went to the Getty Museum this afternoon.  Absolutely gorgeous buildings, grounds and an incredible collection of art.  Much more than can be appreciated in just an afternoon, but it was a fun diversion.  Just as rush hour was beginning to hit it's stride, we headed back to the airport to turn in the rental car.  We allotted plenty of time, but even so, it took about one hour to travel ten miles.  This will not surprise our CA friends, but I just have to say to our Albuquerque folks that we have it pretty good traffic-wise.

I'm typing this on the iPad, and the pictures are all on Tom's phone, so I just went through a little half hour exercise in getting them sent via email to this device so I could post them.  Not very hard except it was a little tricky to get everything connected to the wifi here at the airport.  Anyway...here was our afternoon:

And, now we are at the airport very, very, very early whiling away our spare hours until we board the plane...about three more hours for that. At least they have free wifi, we can charge up our devices, and Tom has gone shopping while I guard the carry-on bags at our essentially empty gate.  Both of us freshened up and have put on our comfy clothes for the long 14 hour flight.  We'll have a 1-2 hour layover in Sydney and then a three hour flight to Auckland.  So basically, when you all get up Saturday morning and read this, we'll be less than halfway there, LOL.