Arriving in LAX to be met by Dirk a friend of Nigel & Serena Shailer’s. Who displayed a perfect example of servant hood to stringers. This is a very generous man who treated us to more than he ever needed. After cruising around LA for a few hours while waited for Rudolf’s plain to arrive 6 hours after ours (which was meant to arrive 1 hour before ours but was delayed in Auckland due to an air conditioning mall function). We Final headed up to our motel in Ontario at 6:30pm. All very tired as we had not slept very well on the plain. Some of us fell asleep watching the Lakers basketball game before we went and had tea at 9pm.