Our LAX arrival photos :)
Flight path for ICN -> LAX
We left our Shanghai apartment at 10am on Saturday October 4th and arrived back at our LA apartment at 7pm on Saturday October 4th. It could have been even sooner if we did not have a connection in South Korea and if we did not spend almost 2 hours sitting on the runway in LA. From what we heard, they had trouble finding us a gate at LAX since ours was occupied by a plane with a maintenance issue. It probably didn't help we were an A380 and only so many gates can take that plane. All was fine in the end, just took a bit to get out and home.
Just bought our Dunkin Donuts Boba Green Tea Latte
Our trip back went well. We took a taxi from our apartment to the maglev station (we paid for a round trip, so didn't taxi all the way to the airport). We grabbed a snack at the airport and spent the remainder of our RMB since we were down to our last few yuan. We had a short flight to South Korea and a 3 hour layover to kill. We walked around the airport since it is basically just a huge shopping mall. We did make one discovery while looking around. We found a Dunkin Donuts at one end of the airport and saw a sign saying that they sold boba drinks. We had to try some since we've never seen boba at a dunkin donuts. It was ok (kinda expected, since we figured they would not put the required love into boba). Another cool thing was that the menu was totally different with lots of interesting Korean treats (ex bulgogi hot dog).
The flight from South Korea to LAX was only 10 hours, with an extra 2 hours of sitting on the tarmac. We got through customs with no issues. We were a little worries since we brought some food but we were good citizens and declared it all and they didn't seem to care. From there we grabbed a bus back to downtown and walked from Union Station back to our apartment. The weather was nice and it was a good way to enjoy our welcome back to LA.
We just found out that tomorrow is CicLAvia! As of now we think we can get up and join in on the fun. We will see if we feel the same way tomorrow morning :)
photo from CicLAvia in 2011