Heading East (Part 2)

The first leg of our flight was pretty short. We jumped off the plane and ran to our next flight. (Gotta love short layovers.) We didn’t have time to grab food but figured they would be selling lunch on the plane. The plane was pretty packed and a young man sat between my SIL and me. (Poor guy) Luckily, Todd ended up being super nice and humored us. 

Todd was on his way to NY to surprise his girlfriend for her birthday. How sweet is that? It was his first time on the east coast and was being picked up by his girlfriends mom. (Who hadn’t met yet...he is braver than me.) He and I exchanged iPhones to play some new games, and his iphone is in yesterday’s Wordless Wednesday photo. (Taken with my iPhone...lol)  Anyways Todd was a great sport and the flight was enjoyable....even if all they had for sale for lunch was lame snacks. LAME

We had a car waiting for us at the baggage area and we headed off to my grandmother’s house for the night. My grandma lives in NJ and the plan was to spend the night at her house, take the bus into the city, stay for two nights, and head back to my GG’s house for another night. Leaving early the next morning. Best Laid Plans....

Somewhere between the middle of the second flight and the ride to my GG’s I realized I was not up to going to the city. My stupid bladder was killing me and I was in complete turmoil about what to do. This trip had been planned for years and I was going to ruin it.   (Or my lame ass bladder was going to ruin it.)   
We arrived at my GG’s house just in time to have dinner. Woot Woot! Anyone who grows up in NY knows that food just tastes better on the east coast. Even NJ has amazing chinese and italian food.  My GG had already picked up some yummy chinese food and pizza. (‘cause she is the best.)  Dinner was wonderful even though my mind was going a mile a minute trying to figure out what to do about going to NYC. 

After dinner I spoke to my mom and my GG and told them I was feeling miserable. Holding back the tears welling up in my eyes, I explained that I really was just not up to running around in the crazy heat feeling miserable. My GG brightened and said,” you can stay here with me.” To see how happy it would make her for me to stay in NJ with her made everything better! 

Both my niece and my SIL were sad that I wasn’t going to join them in NYC, but could tell I needed the rest. In the morning they got up and headed to the bus while I got ready to spend the day with an amazing women, my grandmother. 

So maybe my trip wasn’t going to be ruined after all... (to be continued)