6 hours and 18 minutes to home

We made the flight easily this morning😎

Now will we actually leave JFK on time?

Carrie happy, a new crossword puzzle about the boys of summer.

Hello from Jamaica, man!

That would be Jamaica, New York! Practically around the corner from JFK.

Almost missed our flight out of Ireland!

When we got to the airport, the first place we went to was USA pre-clearence we filled out our declaration form and had our passports scanned. We checked in with Aer Lingus and headed through security. We thought we were done!

We kept waiting for them to assign our flight a gate. We shopped and checked the board. We taste new Jamison flavors and checked the board.  We had coffee/pop and checked the board.

Finally we decided we better go to the toilet and try and figure out what was going on. As I left the restroom, I heard them calling us on the overhead speakers!

There was a SECOND pre-clearance and security! We got pushed ahead and got through it and ran to gate 406 they told us was our gate only to find it had been MOVED to 403! So off we wrnt back down the terminal. Carrie is doing all of this in her stocking feet!

We were nearly the last people on the plane but made it.

The great thing was then we didn't have do any customs stuff at JFk.

We had dinner a nice visit and dinner with Brian. Now we are showered, Carrie is asleep in the other bed (it is 8:30). The alarm is set for 4:50 am. 

Good night. See you tomorrow.

Last Day in NYC waiting for Aer Lingus

Packing day. We also went down to the South Seaport on our way to Ground Zero. Thought of Dad with the tall ships. I remember the pictures from his time with the merchant marines and the pictures of the ships.

Today was another HOT day. We stopped at an Irish/American pub to cool off. Second Irish pub in as many days.

Of course Gound Zero was packed. To go up into the Observation Deck cost $37. We were starting to run short on time so we headed back to our hotel to retrieve our bags and call Uber. Yes we chickened out carrying our bags blocks through New York,  down the subway stairs ont to multiple trains...

We are now at our gate, have switched our phones for International use WE HOPE! Met 2 women in the trip. 1 woman's cab/car was rear ended another is having trouble getting her pap (sp) machine through. What csn I say...

Busman's Holiday and Mario Bateli

Thursday we decided it wasn't that fun doing the shows so we did not go to Stephen Colbert. Especially when we read we had to be there at 1:15 to get the "Real" tickets and then back at 3:30...

So we went to the library! We even spent some time in the genealogy dept.

We then went Grenwich Village.  Hit our first Starbucks. Mostly because we knew we could sit, connect to wifi and figure out what to do next. We headed toward Washington  Square. Found a Modells sport store closing. Carrie resisted buying a Mets Harvey t-shirt. I got some socks in my ever quest to keep my feet from hurting😐

We found Mario's Babbo restaurant.  We actually got in!  We split everything we had so we could taste everything.

We had Pasta!  Big surprise for us. The first pasta was a special of the day  ravioli with asparagus. The second we had was spaghetti with lobster --it said it was 1 lb. But that must have included the shell.

I had a white wine, Carrie a red. I really need to brush up on my Italian wines. Both nights had them and I had no idea what they were.

For dessert we had 5 cheeses with a different sweet sauce. One had a yummy butterscotch sauce Loved it! The last one had bacon -- can't go wrong with BACON.

we left there with the intention of going to the Comedy Cellar. All the shows were sold out. The Cafe Wha? Was just a few doors down so we went for live music instead.

My last post is stuck in "Saving" hell so I will not had so many pictures to this one.

When in Rome (or Chinatown)

ShLast night we had dinner at Joe's Shanghai.  It was good. We  had the soup dumplings -- crab and pork and Shanghai  Fried flat noodles. Which were not fried or flat!

I made it all the way through with chopsticks and a spoon.  Or did I? Judging from the front of my shirt...

New York, New York

In our room in Chinatown. I see Dim Sum in our future!

The AirTrian was easy and fast from Newark. As we came out of Penn Station, there was the Affinia Hotel where we stayed last time. We went over there and caught a cab (the doorman helped us😎)

Now do we have the energy to go to dinner?