Picking up Family

Today my family arrived and Kenny and I were going to pick them up at LAX. We got up fairly early and Kenny finished some of the cleaning work that was still left over from yesterday. Around 11 am we started to get ready and headed out to LAX. We figured that it would take use roughly 1 1/2 hours to get there. We didn't take into consideration, that it was Sunday and therefore the traffic was very light. We got to LAX in about 1 hour, parked the car went over to the International Terminal. And then we waited. Their flight from Frankfurt (Germany) arrived on time, but this time they had to go through Immigration and Customs and that took them about 1 1/2 hours.

When they were here 3 years ago they had gone through Immigration and Customs during their lay-over at Chicago. That's why they made it off the flight so quickly. But on the other hand it was fun watching people get out and reuniting with their friends and loved ones. The only downside of the International Terminal at LAX is that the AT&T cellphone connection is absolutely crappy.

Finally they made it out of the terminal. I couldn't believe how big Leonhard has gotten and it was the first time that I saw my second nephew Daniel. After a bathroom break we went over to the car, packed everyone up and started to head north to our place. Of course there was quite some traffic between LAX and the Sunset exit of the 405. Other than that traffic was quite light and we made it back to our house in about 1 1/2 hours. We showed off our house and the land we own and like so many people before them my family was impressed with the house and the size of the land.

After that my mom took a nap and didn't wake up till about midnight. The rest of my family had an early dinner. We ordered 2 medium sized Pizza's from the Pizzeria in Agua Dulce. After dinner my family turned in quite early and Kenny and I returned to parts of our regular TV for Sunday.