The lead up wasn’t great- I got the flu a few days before we
were going to leave, then Hurricane Sandy swung through and did her thing
(which included flooding airports). I obsessively checked my flights status but
miraculously it kept saying “on time”. The same was true for Noah. Convincing a
car service to drive me to the airport was the next challenge. I couldn’t even
get through to a dispatcher on first and second choice car services. I had to
scrape the bottom of the barrel to find one and the first car they sent refused
to take me to Newark bc he thought I was going to JFK. Of course I left
millions of hours early anticipating all manner of disaster but when a car
willing to drive me actually showed up, we made record time to Newark. Then the line at check in and security was
shorter than I’ve ever seen it in my life. I got to my gate with 5 HOURS to
spare.
Here’s why:
Yup- my flight was basically the only one leaving the
airport. What’s better, Noah was leaving on a different airline from a
different airport. JFK cancelled all its flights on Tuesday but Noah’s flight
left at 12:15 on Wednesday- he made the cut off by 15 minutes and his flight
took off too.
The world wanted us to go on vacation.
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