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Chapter 3

CHAPTER 3

"New Places and New Faces"

When: Summer 2014

Where: Los Angeles, California

Time: 5 pm

"Flight 218, the plane from London to California, has now arrived" this is what we first heard, when we first stepped on American soil. The airport lobby was very spacious, that was my first observation. We all just looked around for a good 20 minutes to just take in what was happening. And yes! it was happening, this is real, somebody slap me I still can not believe it! U2's Elevation kept ringing inside my head, and when it hit me, just then did I believe.

"WE ARE HERE!!!!!!! We are finally here, I can't wait to play guys, this is so amazing!" I shouted.

"Please do not break into a happy dance here! Please Aria not in public!" Pearl exclaimed.

"Guys where's Darci?" asked Elle.

"She's over there, some random guy came up to her, how come she always gets sucked into one of those? I really have not stopped asking myself that." stated Garder, a bit irritated.

Then Michael went up to Darci to get her out of the situation she was in, what ever that was.

"Ok guys, we have to find Mr. Henderson, he's the one taking us to the hotel, so keep a look out." said Andre.

From the few people who waited outside the airport doors with the cardboards mentioning their clients' name, it wasn't that hard to find ours. Yup, we saw A CALL TO ACTION sprawled in a white cardboard held up by a 40-ish guy wearing a somewhat corporate attire immediately. Well he had a vest on, that seems corporate to me. ;)

We approached him and he kindly introduced himself, he's name is Frank Henderson. He had this big smile on his face, I think that he was happy that he didn't have a hard time finding us, well we found him but that's that right.

He took our bags and placed them in the trunk of a large van and he signaled all of us to go in. Frank gave us a tour while he drove, yeah imagine that, a very enthusiastic tour guide, never seen one before. Most of the tour guides I saw were either boring or cranky. This was definitely a plus for America.

Rodeo Drive, Queens Boulevard, Sunset strip these were all the places we had passed by in the last half hour of driving. California really is big and there are a lot of palm trees too, just like in the movies.

Pearl spotted an In and Out joint which she kindly asked frank if we could stop by explaining that she was dying of hunger (but we all knew the real reason, she was dying to taste an In and Out Burger!).

Apparently her "dying of hunger face" was very convincing because instantly frank pulled up at the place. He happily told us that we still have a few minutes to spare so why not. And that was our first taste of American food, the In an Out Burger, it was indeed delicious! I mean for a dollar you get one burger meal (that's a burger, fries and a soda). How rad is that? And after that quick meal, since we devoured everything quickly, we went on to our hotel, the Hilton.

Magnificent is one word to describe the Hilton. As soon as we entered the lobby we didn't know what to do. So I led the "freaking out", not cool I know but I couldn't help myself.

"OMG! OMG! OMG! I can not believe how surreal this makes me feel right now." I said with enough energy for everyone.

"Wow babe! The company is making us stay in this gorgeous hotel? Help me not break anything ok." Elle nervously told Andre.

"I hope we get free booze here....and tomato juice too." wished Garder.

"B! Please take good care of kero (Darci's acoustic guitar) for me, I don't want it breaking any time soon." Darci charmingly told Michael.