After months of planning, the three week trip to Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan was finally booked a week and half before we were to set to leave.
We packed our clothes, bought all travel gear necessities, and brought a pharmacy load of medications (after all, who knew what weather, medical ailments, and number of squatties would be encountered on this trip :P ). It's always best to be on the safe side than on the...not so safe side?
Our flight was set to leave at 12:30 PM. We checked in our luggage and passed through security easily with an hour to spare. The trip that had been difficult to plan, coordinate with everyone's schedules and book through the cheaper Chinese travel agency was finally happening.
We were actually GOING.
When we arrived to our gate wing, we noticed that airport employees were redirecting the flow of traffic and telling people to go around. No problem. With all the remodeling and upgrading at LAX, I thought we were just going a round-a-bout way to the gate. A few escalator walkways later, my sister realized something was wrong. There was no round-a-bout way to our gate. In fact, the two internationals wings at LAX never connect with each other. We quickly stopped dead in our tracks and turned around.
The airport employees were still redirecting us away. When we finally asked one of them "why," all she could say was that LAPD had shut down our gate wing. To top it all off everyone who had been in that wing had also been evacuated.
So much for us going.
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