Good Omens

Well . . .

WE'RE IN NEW YORK CITY!!!!!

"New York CITY!?!?" (hopefully you said this correctly, with a southwest accent, a-la Pace Salsa commercial)

Yessir: The Big Apple, The City That Never Sleeps . . .

Okay, almost never sleeps? Let's just say that after our nearly-sleepless plane adventure (I use the term adventure here both literally and sarcastically) :) ... the only thing that we could think to do once we made it to our friend's place... was pass out.

I know, I know . . .

You are supposed to try and stay up to get your internal clock (thymus gland??) back on track, but after the day we had, our brains were so mushy we could not function; you'll have to cut us some slack this time folks. hehehe

...I like lists to organize events, so here is one of many to come...


On Our Way:

-We went to dinner with my family and Miss Emily's Papa... :)

-We sat around at my house, made some calls to our NY friend and those who were wishing us well.

-While the "grown-ups" (because we still do NOT fall into that niche) chatted and looked at us lovingly. (I think?)

-I enjoyed my last west-coast sunset! It was a little odd because of all the smoke in air from a fire near San Jose, but still really pretty, maybe more so since the whole sky had a weird glow to it.

-My brother, begrudgingly, snapped a shot of me with my luggage to prove I was really all packed... see...

-I said goodbye to wonderful Fischer family! xoxo! (with a patented Fischer-Family-Hug, of course!)

-I hopped in Miss Emily's Papa's vehicle (which was sadly void of the puppy, Zoe... jk Em! hehe) and we headed OFF to the PLANE STATION!!! (known by most as the airport.)

-Good Omen 1: We arrived at the airport and pulled up to the JetBlue area. Litterally. Right up to it. No other cars were in our way and the space open for us was DIRECTLY in front of doors into the terminal.

-Good Omen 2: As we prepared to wheel in all of our... make that... ALL OF OUR LUGGAGE (to emphasize the quantity, volume, and weight)... and Em's Papa went to park we see that the doors are DIRECTLY in front of the JetBlue desk, no $2.00 cart or tip-worthy help needed. :)

-We wheeled, dragged and cajoled ALL OF OUR LUGGAGE the, thankfully, short distance to the desk.

-Good Omen 3: We were the ONLY people arriving at the JetBlue desk and were assisted DIRECTLY by all, two, of the attendants.

-We loaded ALL OF OUR LUGGAGE up on the scales, one-by-one, each knowing full well that we were going to be paying for overages: I had one suitcase that was about 10lbs overweight (+ $20.00) and Em had an oversized, overweight piece (+ $50.00 size and + $20.00 weight).

-My Man told The Man Helping Em to place $20 on for my bag. The Man Helping Em, (henceforth to be known as Mr. Awesome) told her he would charge us $20 for each bag!! (completely ignoring the oversize aspect and the fact that she was a smidge, a half-pound, into an additional $20.00 weight bracket). We were pretty, darn excited!

-Good Omen 4: My Man and then left the area. Mr. Awesome, looked at us as he loaded her bag on the belt and nonchalantly (to the point where I almost missed the meaning) esaid to us, that he was not going to charge us at all. FOR ANYTHING. He told us to just make sure that we kept it quiet and that next time our bags were only 50lbs. !?!?!??!?! This is where we made the jump from "pretty, darn excited" to REALLY stoked! Mr. Awesome had just saved us $90!?!?!?!

-We hung out with Em's Papa in the terminal food court.

-Mark met up with us to say goodbye and help us pass some time in the airport. That day he had finally earned his COMMERCIAL MULTI ENGINE rating! yay!

-Em's Papa and Mark had some starbucks while Em and I grew increasingly anxious.

-Finally... It was time to make our way toward the gate.

-We said our goodbyes and made it through security without anything eventful happening.

-We waited at the gate, which made for great times doing one of my favorite sports, people watching. Airports gather the strangest people. Especially when waiting for a red eye.

-We boarded the plane via the stairs on the tarmac! Something I had never done, it was very old-school Hollywood... well, minus the glamous... and photogs... and add in weird airport men staring as you walk. So, not really like that at all. BUT it was fun anyway, I REALLY wish one of those airport men had offered to take pictures as people boarded... but I guess that would not have been JetBlue efficient... boo. hehehe :)

After all of our Good Omens our trip was off to a great, smooth start... I have run out of steam and it is TOO HOT for further thinking.

This was far too long, but I really think the excitement of all our awesome deals and lucky breaks that night needed to be taken into account. It was a big ease on the nerves... and the wallet. :)

More later!!!