New York City Days 3 & 4

Saturday morning, we did a little bit of shopping on 5th & Madison & in the Upper East Side... shopping meaning Laura & Emily bought & I simply looked because I'm not about to buy new clothes in my "condition." (Ok, I did get one scarf, thanks to Daddy C.)

We had lunch on the Upper East Side as well and then headed to Central Park.  It was neat to see part of the NYC marathon course and also some features of the park we had never seen before.

a pic of us by this fountain was our 2009 Christmas card!

L loves her little nephew. And the fact that I'm getting "fat." 

The Boat House

LOVE Central Park in the fall w/ my hubs :-)

 We went back to the hotel and my sisters and Grant and I went out to dinner as my parents had a black tie event at Ellis Island and we were not invited.  We split up after that and Grant and I saw a second show- "Follies," staring Bernadette Peters.  Grant loved it, I liked it (it was cool to see Bernadette Peters)... however, I preferred seeing Harry Potter perform & I'm still talking about it two weeks later  :-) It was a good show though, and the entire cast was super talented. It was fun to walk back at night as everything is slowly getting lit up for Christmas.  Someday, I will go when the tree is in Rockefeller Center!

the glittery scarf was my one new purchase in NYC. Thanks Dad. And sigh... someday we will visit NYC when it's fully decorated for Christmas!

again, the once too big North Face makes it look like I'm barely pregnant! thanks Mom :-)

Times Square after the show

Sunday morning, we took the subway to Chelsea and explored Chelsea Market.  I could have spent hours eating there... but we had just had breakfast, so I settled for a Jacques Torres Wicked Hot Chocolate that was by far the richest, thickest hot cocoa I had ever tasted.  

 We also visited the newly opened High Line park, which was built where there used to be a railway... it's pretty neat because the whole park is elevated above the city.  We ended our trip with a stop at a food cart, and since it was marathon Sunday, we took off a few hours early for the airport.

the Clark girls

The whole trip was almost flawless... until we got to the airport.  We printed off our boarding passes at the hotel's business center and since we were not checking luggage, we headed directly to security.  We waited in line for a good 40 minutes or so, had our IDs and boarding passes checked a first time... and then we got to the second security check, right before you strip down and throw everything on the conveyor belt.   The friendly TSA guy looks at our boarding passes and goes "these are for a flight out of LaGuardia."

"WHAT?!?"

I almost burst into tears on the spot.  I book all of the travel for our family, and I distinctly remembered that I was getting the best possible deal by flying CMH to LGA and then JFK to CMH on TWO DIFFERENT airlines.  Both were one way tickets.

The TSA agent said "maybe the ticket counter can help you out."

We head to the ticket counter, with me trying to hold back the tears while also trying to stick out my stomach as far as possible hoping that she would notice that I'm pregnant.  The woman asks to help us and I explain what happened.

She begins the tappedy tap tap tap on the keyboard... It felt like one of those moments in the movies where they were just clicking the keys to pretend they were doing something... and then she says, "No, this ticket was always out of LGA."  Then she asks, "were you checking any bags?"  She leaned over to the agent next to her and asked something about a fee, to which the woman shook her head.

She looks at me and goes, "Ok I have you rebooked on a flight out of here that leaves in one hour.  Here are your boarding passes.  I have waived all fees."

WHAT!?!?!!? (The good kind of WHAT?!?!?!)  I thanked her and vowed silently to use Delta more often.  We could not believe this actually worked out.  For free.  And on top of everything, the flight she booked us on got us home AN HOUR EARLIER! That hour was like gold on a Sunday night after a weekend away.

Dad, if you are reading this, thanks for a WONDERFUL trip to NYC :-) LOVE YOU!