JFK

September 27, 2012

We had an uneventful flight from LAX to Philly.  We went through Chicago, but got to stay on the plane.  Mike picked us up as usual and we were at Mike and Jenn’s by late evening.  Oh it was so good to see them and Sammy and Sydney.  Mike and Jenn are amazingly busy.  Mike is working on a “situation” that he couldn’t tell us about because he would have had to kill us.  Jenn made some fantastic tomato soup which we ate while we caught up and the next day BC and I were in charge of S&S.  We dressed them in their matching pink Sacramento shirts, or as Sammy calls it Santa-mento. 

 

We went for a walk in the morning and never did find the playground.  But it was fun and we did check to see if the BBOY was around.  No luck. 

In the afternoon we borrowed Jenn’s car and took S&S to the grocery store to buy some important items.  A bottle of wine for Mike and Jenn’s upcoming 5 year anniversary and cake-a-party supplies!!!  Yes, Sammy will be 3 at the end of October so we had a cake-a-party yesterday evening.  Lots of fun, as the pictures show.  Sammy liked her butterfly jacket and the new “work station”.  She learned to write her first word….BOB!! 

This morning we played with the girls while getting in a load of laundry.  You know the rules of the road.  Never turn down a bathroom or a washer/dryer!  Jenn took us to a local hotel in South Jersey where Parnelli Abdul picked us up and drove us to JFK.  He was a little late, 12:45 but made great time.  We got to JFK at 2:15.  BC paid extra for us to have the back far seat.  You know, the one with minimal padding and a great  bounce?  BC says Parnelli was normally driving at 82 mph, but I reminded him that the entire drive was “Slow for Construction” so BC confirmed that Parnelli was only going 77mph in those zones.  We did get to see the Freedom Tower and the Statue of Liberty from the Verrazano Bridge on Staten Island.  We noticed that Brooklyn hasn’t changed much, 1.3 million tall brick buildings.  “Where do you live?” “In the brick building over there.” 

We got through check in fine and got rid of our 1 big bag.  Now we are just waiting for our flight this evening at 9pm. In a little over 48 hours we have been at LAX, Chicago, Philly and JFK.  Talk about fun people watching!  We saw movie stars in LAX, (well I think they were, they acted like it. Who wears 4 inch heels, a green chiffon caftan type thing that reaches her, uh, well, bum and has long “real” blond locks and talks on the phone all the time?  I didn’t see her little dog.)  Everyone here at JFK wears black.  Maybe they are mourning not being west coasters?  Ha!  Probably not. 

Because there are no pictures of BC while we were at Mike and Jenn’s (my bad), here’s one of him enjoying the spinach dip.  So far his planning of this trip is amazing!

We plan to sleep on the 5 hour ride over the pond because we will hit the ground running tomorrow!  Talk to you later!  

bc and gc