On Wednesday, March 16th, the Winter quarter ended and it was finally time for me to go home. I was so excited for the trip home because I knew that it would be an adventure. The Aman family always seems to always have trouble when traveling; we have forgotten tickets and bags among a countless of other necessary items.
I woke up at 6:30 that morning, stressing about my Physiology and Chemistry finals. These two challenging finals plus the stress of packing and making our train and plane made for an interesting day. For some reason, I felt the need to check the train tickets, and good thing I did. It turned out that the train did not go all the way to LAX, but only to Union Station in downtown LA. If you have ever been to SoCal, you know that LAX is toward the western side of LA (Santa Monica area). I googled how far away it was from Union Station to LAX... another 40 minutes. Thinking that we would have plenty of time to figure things out when we got to the station, I decided not to worry but to focus on the two finals.
The finals went okay (I was so scared that I failed them :/ ) and then Brady and I were on our way to LAX. Long story short, our train was late on arriving, giving us less than an hour to get to LAX, check-in, and get through security. We were determined to do it. We got the bus driver to drive as fast as he could through LA traffic and we got to LAX with 30 minutes till departure. We flew through check-in, had a short stall at the security check-point (funny story behind that), and arrived at the terminal with 15 minutes to spare.
The plane ended up being delayed for an extra hour. All we could do was laugh. Our bodies were collapsing beneath us due to lack of food (granola bars is all we had the whole day) and exhaustion (only slept for about 4 hours the night before). We got home and it was great to just sit and relax. I was finally able to sit in the presence of the people I love. It was a long day, but it was nice to be home.
Granola Bars, Space-Saver Bags, creepy chicks at Security Checkpoint, and running through LAX with my best-friend is something that I will cherish forever.
