I arrived in New York a week ago and my itinerary said I would be leaving two days ago… huh… funny how that happens. I like it when you look on Weather Channel and it says the current temperature is 18 yet “feels” like 5. I don’t think you can actually feel 5 degrees - it is simply too cold.

I am so glad that Aaron got out before the storm. No really, I am SO GLAD that he is back home with the girls.

I was able to realize a dream Valentine’s Day in NYC with my dear employees. Actually, 12 hours of it was spent at the JFK airport with one employee, Kelly. She got married just last year, I am sure her dream V-day was spending it with her boss in a dirty airport only to have the flight delayed then canceled. As you can imagine, the thousands of hopefully travelers proceeded to the baggage claim to collect their belongings in an orderly fashion… yeah right. There were fistfights, profanity and of course there was a lot of anger. We arrived back at the hotel around 2:00am. Kelly went to bed and I waited on hold for an hour with Delta Airlines they worked with me for 45 minutes. Then I called Jet Blue I was on hold with them for a full hour - even though the recording said it would be 20 minutes. I finally hung up without talking to a rep. That was 5:00am. Then I went to sleep.

That was the second trip to the airport in hopes of getting out. I wont go even go into our Tuesday events at LaGuardia. We are scheduled to fly out of Newark on Sunday. Most people come to NYC to see museums, Broadway shows and architecture - I like touring airports.

It was sort of surreal - that many people, that many flights cancelled, that much luggage. People asleep on the floor. Children asleep on luggage carts. And a lot of fancy dogs from the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show! Do fancy dogs get their own seat or are they lap children? Can you bring a dog in First Class?

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