New York Trip - Part 2

I will post photos later... I got back to San Diego from NYC last night (Sunday). I almost missed my plane. I had underestimated how long the subway would take to the airport. I arrived at the airport at 6:00 p.m. and my plane was scheduled to leave at 6:20 p.m. Fortunately, the American Airline's counter lady helped me jump the line at security and I ran all the way to the airplane! It was far! I have not run like that for a long time, at least prior to my knee surgery three years ago. I was so exhausted when I got the gate...coughing and sweating, but I made it!

Get this...I barely make it onto the plane in time before the doors closed, but then we sat on the runway, waiting for over one hour because there were 40 airplanes in front of us, in queue waiting to take off. Apparently, JFK airport reduced the take-offs to one runway because there was a really strong 50+ miles/hour surface wind. It was not bumpy taking off and flying back to San Diego. I got a lot of studying done! :-)

I had a wonderful time in NYC with Josh. On Sunday, it started snowing. I never realized that Josh had never seen snow falling before. When it started, he asked me, "Mom, is that ash coming down?"

At first, I thought that he was kidding, but then I realized that even though he has seen snow on the ground before when we were up in the mountains, he had never actually seen snow falling. Living in Southern California, he had seen ash falling from the sky from the wild fires, that is why he asked that question.

I told him that it was snow falling and he said, "Oh, I thought that snowflakes were bigger."

I asked him how big he thought they were going to be and replied that he thought that they would be the size of papercut snowflakeds (you know the ones you cut out with scissors). I almost fell to the ground laughing. Imagine big snowballs falling from the sky! --- After that, we had a good laugh. :-)

I said good-bye to Josh as he was going to catch a taxi back to his apartment and I was going to go down the stairs into the subway. I started to hyperventilate and had a bit of a panic attack about leaving "my boy" in NYC all by himself... But, he is doing really well, so I told myself to "knock it off"! :-) What can I say, I am his mom and he is "my boy", right?!