Glendale to Portland

 We met Jamie at the Paris Baguette which was close to his place and to the pickleball courts.  It is much smaller than the one near Sharon's.

But it was still good.  

We had a 9 am reservation at the pickleball court.  We decided that we had to split up Pam and Jamie.  Nathan and I rotated being partners between the two of them.  They are definitely too good for us.  

We don't need any more pictures of the 4 of us.  Sharon & Michael came around 10 am  with Ella and Nicole. 

This is the climbing structure at the park.  Nathan enjoyed climbing it with Ella and Nicole.  Michael was watching his kids.  

Nathan and Ella went down the big slide.  

 Then Ella could join us on the pickleball court.  She is pretty good.  

After we finished our 2 hours at the pickleball court we headed to Sharon and Michael's.  We had already checked out of our Airbnb.  We had a chance to shower and change.  We had leftover Indian food for lunch.

We hung out and played games

Their array of decorated pumpkins.  

Bunch of bananas waiting to ripen.  On their tiny yard they have avocados, oranges, lemons, bananas, apples, and lots of mint.   

Some vigorous playing was happening.  

We walked up the street to go get ice cream.  Ella and Nicole like the frozen yogurt shop where you can pile on the toppings.  The rest of us went on down the street to an ice cream shop.

We got a group picture.

Sharon, Micheal, me, and George in back

Nicole, Nathan, Ella, Jamie, and Pam in front

Then it was time for us to head off to the airport.  We were not sure how long the shuttle to the airport would take.  This shuttle bus is definitely something which needs improvement.  It took us almost an hour to turn in our car and get to the airport.  Come to find out there was no rush.  Our flight was delayed.  Argh!!!!

The airport itself is very nice but right now we never want to come here again. 

This used to be the Bob Hope International airport and now it is The Hollywood Burbank airport.  I guess some people are unhappy about dropping the Bob Hope.

Our flight was delayed several times.  Announcement the flight will be at gate 8 ... No gate 7.... No 8 .... Maybe  it will be canceled.  No they are changing planes and it should be here.  Now instead of getting to Portland at 8:30 pm we should be arriving at 1:03 AM!!

I think that this airport is getting a negative review from us.  They could not help the flight delay but things were beyond expensive.  An egg sandwich and a glass of wine cost over $60. Nathan and I shared a sandwich and glass of wine. George had a $25 burrito. 

After eating dinner we received a $96 voucher from Alaska for food.  Not wine.  I was able to go back and get my egg sandwich taken off.  George had trouble getting his sandwich taken off.  But he used the voucher for some other food items.  We now have bananas for breakfast.  ;-)

I am going to send this now.  I will send an arrival message in the morning. I think that I will go straight to bed when we get home.  We will have to take an Uber or Lyft to get home.