Admiring the Admiral

So I am not 100 percent sure where we are up to with my travels but this morning the lovely people at American Airlines were able to help me get a new ticket to New York this afternoon at 3pm, which is amazing, meaning I will be able to get to New York in time for new years eve!!

By the time I got the new ticket I ended up having a few hours spare to spend in LA, so I asked my concierge to explain where the nearest mall was ( because if you want to learn anything about a people you can always tell by their malls, right?) and anyway I ended up with a driver in this hot mess black gangster mobile to go shopping. AH-MAY-ZING!! My driver was really nice but and we chatted about things, and then he started talking to me about relationsships and stuff and asked why I was still single, I think we possibly had a moment which was nice and odd at 10:30 in the morning.

The only downside to this was that the local mall was infact a Westfield, so hardly breaking the cultural mould there. Fortunetly they did have a Macy's and a JC Pennys that I was able to go into. They were fantastic, not because of what they sold - think a waterdowned version of David Jones, but because of who staffed it. The only shop assistants where Hispanic woman with too much eye make up or black woman who hated you for interupting them because they were really busy doing nothing.

Now I am at LAX, my flight got delayed by 2 hours so instead of waiting downstairs with the peeps I upgraded into the Qantas Club which the Amercian's have creatively retitled The Admiral's Cub. It' full of annoying Australian teenage girls and rich American's who just exist on their laptops. Oh I did totally see James Blake here though, he was using the computer next to me which and instead of being an obssessed fan asking for his autograph while he checked his emails, I just starred at him forever until he left.

I am really looking forward to New York and can't wait till get there, even if it is a day and a bit later than what it was meant to be.