LA Accomodation and transport settled

Time now is 4.15am.

Took us a while to finally settle our LA 'trip'.

We tried to find a hotel near the girls that also take dogs and found only a couple. They had no rooms with 2 double beds for the days we were to be there so we tried booking with a different check in date. Got a room to check in to from 11-13 June, but we will arrive on 10 June and need somewhere to stay with the dogs. Gosh it's tough finding a hotel/ inn that accept dogs at reasonable rates..

Since we will pass by Dessert Hill Outlet from Tucson to LA and since it is 1hr 56mins away from the girls' hotel PLUS slightly over an hour (to and from the nearest pet friendly hotel near them) should we go pick them up, we decided to get a hotel near the outlet for 10th June to rest for the day. We needed a place to stay anyway.

Mr Liow felt bad that we wouldn't be bringing the girls to Dessert Hill but it's really tough with that amount of travelling. If we were to stay near the girls, provided we can find another hotel that takes dogs (which we've been unable to....what is the occassion?? Dog shows??), we will have to travel 26mins to their hotel to fetch them, and then another 1hr 56mins to the outlet. Make it a to and fro trip and Mr Liow will have to drive 5hours both ways. It's going to be tiring for us all after these few days of hectic packing plus late nights and early mornings.

Sorry girls, if you happen to read this before we manage to speak to you all tomorrow. The nearest La Quinta is 26mins from Hollywood Historic minus traffic.

So we finally settled for the 2 La Quintas at different locations. Next up was car rental.

Most websites that we searched through had no more mini-vans for rental on the dates we needed one!! Sent us into a state of panic! The only car rental site that still had mini-vans for rent was renting each (with taxes and surcharges all in, plus the extra amount we have to pay for dropping the vehicle off in another state) was over $1k!

*faint*

We had almost no choice but to pay that amount till smart Mr Liow decided to try checking prices for collecting the car on different dates. True enough, after 2 hours, we found a mini-van that we can rent for less than $700 with all tax and extra charges included.

It's almost going to be sunrise by now. Mr Liow's guys will be coming over to our place to move our furnitures to the new colleague's (the one who's taking over Mr Liow) place at 9am, 4 hours from now.

Mr Liow is sound asleep, terribly tired out from these weeks of little sleep and packing plus handover/takeover stress at work. Me? Tired but sleepless.. I better catch some sleep before AN wakes up.

Mr Liow has to bring Derrick (the new coll) to office for the first time to help him familiarize a little in the afternoon after the move. He will be sending the furkids to be shaved down on his way.

Makes me feel so bad I wasn't able to be of much help to him and almost the entire transfer back to Singapore, every responsibility (packing, wrapping and even bringing the girls around while they were here) fell on his shoulders. Oh yes, cleaning up the house is no joke too.

Things have not been going according to plan and it makes him even more nervous with the tight schedule now.

Time to sleep now. We trust that the rest of what we have to get done, will be done on time and that there will be no more surprises, with the Lord in control.