Feb. 6-2015  travel day to Kauai:

Our travel day went smoothly this time!  No big changes to our flights over the previous 330 days, no delays on day of travel, and we were even able to go to Customer Service in LAX during our 3.5 hours layover and got upgraded to the front of coach where there's a lot more leg room and we were able to have a row of 3 seats to ourselves.  The day really didn't seem too bad, even though it took us about 15 hours to get from our home to Kauai.
Here we are descending into LA.

 What to do during a layover----play with the weird scene settings on my p&s underwater camera!

 Taking off from LAX

 We saw sunset in LA, as we were taking off.

 We seemed to be a little late getting into LIH.  I took off to get our car from Budget (with my Fastbreak account) while Ken waited for our luggage.  Again Budget had the best prices for a full size or above car.  Even checking regularly, this mid size SUV ended up being the cheapest rental for our 6 nights ($220ish including about $100 in taxes and fees) and spouse drives free.  Initially she wanted to give us a Jeep Wrangler, but I asked for something else.  In about 15 minutes we were on our way to Kauai Beach Villas in our GMC Terrain SUV.  Got to the resort a couple minutes before 11pm.  Were surprised to see they put us in an Ocean View unit the first 2 days.  Yea! I was able to reserve the last 5 nights in an OV, but the first 2 were suppose to be in a garden view. We probably could have stayed in the first room all 6 nights, but the view from the G building is a lot better, so we'll switch rooms tomorrow.  Then we were off to Safeway to get our deli sandwich dinner (which they didn't have) and a few other things.  Ended up having our first dinner on Kauai this trip from McDonald's---which really tasted good!
Not a bad start for our Hawaii vacation!