It is Monday now and I am chillaxing in the East Village after a long day of looking at apartments for my child. More on that later but back to Sunday. My last word was about still waiting for my 6am Jetblue flight to leave the gate. After we sat on the plane for another 20 minutes the crew took pity on us and supplied us with a meal.
We did actually leave the ground eventually and had an uneventful flight to NYC. It was quite foggy there, could just barely see the beach.
We landed at 10:30 and since my luggage’s flight was going to come in at 11:30 seemed not a huge disaster….
Once my Jetblue website updated though it said my luggage flight would now arrive at 12:30pm. James Lynch met me and we hoped to have lunch at the TWA hotel but they said we needed reservations and they had no TV to watch soccer on anyway.
James took me to a local bar (German name but Irish owned, Prost). I had a nice IPA and the fish and chips!
At halftime in the soccer match i went outside to call Jetblue as now it said my luggage plane was still in Buffalo and wouldn’t come in until 4. It took about 30 minutes on hold and then some transfers but eventually JetBlue promised to send my luggage to my hotel when/if it arrived…..
Not surprisingly for the way day was going an Everton player got a red card and so they lost and will likely be relegated.
James drove me into the city, we went right past my HS and the Lake Success golf course.
Alex came down to street from Dorm and thanked James for delivering me.
A 20” Uber to the Moxy Downtown, vs a 5” walk to the East Village one and …..
And a view (not from our room but the window by elevators)
After a whole hour of relaxing I was off to an open house! Alex’s future roommate Raff’s parents met me there.
I had a nice drink with Raff’s parents and we agreed on future plans for the apt search. Complicated by Alex going to Europe with a friend from May 22 to June 12 and Raff’s family then heading to Sicily on June 14 and then Raff studying in Paris for a month ……
Oh yeah, my suitcase. I got several phone calls, texts and emails alerting me to my suitcases travels. It arrived in NYC at 4:30 pm ( the people on that 10Am flight must have been insane by then), then went to JFK luggage and was then picked up by a courier service. It arrived at hotel at 10pm, I was barely awake by then. I hurried down to lobby with a $20 tip for the courier but he had just left it at desk and gone so …. $20 win!!!!
My first time on an airplane was when my grandmother took me to California to visit my aunt, uncle and cousin. We flew on TWA specifically because she adored that terminal building. I remember how cool it seemed at the time.
As I got older and air travel become more common, I went through that terminal several more times. Unfortunately, it seemed ever more dilapidated as it was used beyond capacity and funds weren’t invested to keep it up. By the end, there was plaster falling off the walls. Nice to see it restored. Seems they’ve done a beautiful job. Would like to stay there one day. What a nice job preserving a special place. I’d not seen it in years and assumed it has been paved over to make way for the newer terminals. Nice to know that didn’t happen.
You had a very unexpected flight and luggage story. Luckily, you got your luggage What an ordeal. Easier to drive
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