I like Your Shoes

We were all up at 3:30 am to head for our 6 am departure. Our group is extra funny when we are tired. Needless to say we had a lot of laughs this morning. I’m fairly certain we ticked more than one person off in Portland’s small Red Carpet Room. The HIGHLIGHT by far, however, was Robin’s joke about mom’s shoes. I’m not sure why mom ended up wearing a pair of shoes she wasn’t excited about but somehow she did. I told Robin mom was conscious about them and that she should make a comment. She was hesitant and it took a lot of bating. Finally, she said when she returned from the bathroom she would do it. I wasn’t so sure I believed her. When Robin returned she said, “Leslie, I like your shoes”.” I was thinking to myself, “that was sort of weak.” Mom looked at Robin, she paused, and then said, “I think Ryan’s grandma has a pair just like them.” Hahahahahahaha. It was so funny. We all died, laughing. Mom then said, “Katy told you didn’t she. I’m gonna get her.” It was all worth it.

In the LAX Red Carpet Room we were disappointed in the snacks because it still wasn’t late enough in the day for trail mix, yogurt covered raisins, cookies, veggies, crackers and cheese. Instead I think they had like toast and toast. We did, however, have fun talking to another Club guest. There is one room in the side of the LAX club with a TV and 15 or so chairs. There were only two people in the room when Robin found it, so we decided to go inside with them. They seemed like a nice middle aged couple. I felt like the guy looked vaguely familiar. Evidently Jason felt the same way. At some point we got chatting with them, hit the usual, “where are you goings?” and they said DC. At this point I think the light bulb went off in Jason’s head. We then got on to Washington and politics, probably because of something on TV. The guy was the head of Toyota North America. As you may or may not know Toyota is currently in the midst of one of the biggest product safety recalls in the history of the US. Washington is raking Toyota over the coals and unfortunately for this guy he is baring a huge brunt of it. Even in the face of that he was a genuinely nice guy.

We eventually made it to Cabo, got our bags, got through customs, found our car and talked our driver into stopping at Costco on the way to our hotel. He had a pretty sweet 15 passenger Mercedes van. it was impressive that he fit all of us, our bags and our Costco groceries in one vehicle. The check in at the Hotel Monte Cristo Esates was rather efficient. Before we knew it we were settled into our condo.

After the long day of travel we decided to make it an easy and early night. We ate a pizza we picked up at Costco along with some snacks for dinner and headed to bed.