Sunday: AT LOS ANGELES AIRPORT

We had good seats on the way to Los Angeles.  The only amenities on the flight were beverages but they did offer a choice of three different snack boxes for $7.95 each.  We decided to share one.  It had a bag of chips, mild picante sauce to dip them in, a bag of almonds, a dried fruit blend snack pack, a fig bar, a small container of  Nutella, and two graham crackers.

The trip was uneventful and we asked the stewardesses about the LA airport:  Do we have to leave security area to get to Bradley International terminal.  Both said no.
When we arrived at the airport, we DID have to leave the secured area.  At an information desk, we asked for directions to the international terminal.  She suggested we walk it but directed us to blue signs somewhere outside the terminal by the loading and unloading areas.  We were a little late getting in to LA and it was already after 10 pm on a Sunday night but you could not tell it from the traffic.  Cars, buses,  limos, taxis,  everywhere and everyone driving very aggressively.  I guess you have to or else stay in the same spot all night long.  We found the blue sign and waited for a shuttle with the letter A as directed.  After a short wait, we found our shuttle and took it around to the terminal.  Such horrible traffic and we never left the airport!

Because of construction, the shuttle drops you off short of the terminal but we managed to find and check in at the ANA counter.  The attendant told us to go through security to gate 138.  The security check had a long line but it moved constantly, we got through with no problems, and then looked for gate 138.  We had to go downstairs to it and discovered that it was a holding area.  We would be loaded like sardines into another shuttle bus and taken to where the airplane would be waiting.  This time we traveled through the tarmac area (I really believe they took us back to where we started our LAX adventure when we arrived).