...and so our trip to Puerto Vallarta begins!

So we're here in LAX waiting for our flight, but I wanted to write a short post about our adventures in LAX. First, we woke up at 7:10 this morning, which is really early for us on a weekend, and then got ready to leave for LAX (but not before I sold all my turnips in Animal Crossing...I don't want them to spoil while we're gone). We walked into the international terminal, and noticed that there was a huge sign that said "Mexicana" with an arrow pointing away from any of the ticket counters. It made us wonder if LAX was separating them from all other airlines due to the swine flu. The Mexicana ticket counter is actually two floors down where arrivals are. It looked like a permanent location for them because all their signage was up and they had the plasma TV's with flight statuses installed. It's a strange place to have a ticketing counter in an aiport...

Anyway, when we arrived at the Mexicana ticket counter, we noticed that our flight was cancelled, making us very concerned that we wouldn't be able to go at all. i started thinking about what we would do if we couldn't go and how we really should have checked our flight status before leaving for the airport. Fortunately, Mexicana had transferred our reservation over to Alaska Airlines, and their departure time was only an hour later than our original flight, so it really wasn't that bad of a situation, just a little bit of inconvenience.

While we were eating breakfast, we were wondering what the time difference is between Los Angeles and Puerto Vallarta and we discovered that it was two hours. However, Nick found out that the area of Puerto Vallarta is actually located across two Mexican states, Jalisco and Nayarit, each located in different time zones (Puerto Vallarta itself is in Jaliso, but borders Nayarit). Jalisco, which is where our hotel and the airport are located, is in Central time, but Nayarit is in Mountain time. Tomorrow, we are going to the Sea Life Water Park located in Nayarit, but they have informed us that they follow Puerto Vallarta time. It seems like this could be very confusing for people not used to so easily crossing time zones, but I guess the locals get used to it.

That's all for now, we'll give you an update tonight when we arrive at the hotel.