Destination Fiji (Yasawa Island, specifically). Left for SF airport around 5pm, Wednesday July 15, thankfully early enough to turn around halfway to come back home and pick up specs (mine) and hay fever tabs (hers), then head back south to SFO again. A short hop (look out for: RANT about airline schedules that allow 1.5 hours for a 45 minute flight, just so their late arrival % is kept lower than it would be if they were honest) to LAX, where within minutes of landing we learn that Air Pacific to Fiji is 12 HOURS LATE!!!!! The implications are capital letter-worthy. The hotel we're staying at on Yasawa, a little island off Fiji's main island ain't cheap, and we're going to miss our first night!The "good news", according to the airline, is that they're putting us up for the night at the Westin LAX, and our plane will take off in the morning. Being comp'd at a hotel you wouldn't want to stay at under normal circumstances, and less so when it's instead of one you've been looking forward to for months is, um, sub-optimal. A dreary dinner in a dreary airport hotel follows.
