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NYC For The Holidays – Day 10: Lunch with Jen and Heading Home

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December 30, 2013

  • Spent the morning cleaning Dave’s apartment and packing. Lucas was a big help.
  • Met Jen for lunch at Serafina on Broadway for our last meal together
  • Flew home from Newark. If I have a choice, I’ll never fly United Airlines again. The planes have been upgraded, but a transcontinental flight should have video and/or wi-fi. This plane had neither. They also lost track of our bags on both legs.
  • The only thing that saved me was the same thing that will doom me: Candy Crush. I used to ask the kids, “how many games of candy crush has daddy ever played? … Zero.”  This was a practical and necessary decision on my part. We boarded the plane and I realized that Malcom Gladwell wasn’t going to cut it. Given the crappy cell reception, I knew downloading the first season of Breaking Bad wasn’t going to happen. So, in a media panic I attempted to download Candy Crush. I was alternating between my iPhone hotspot and my Verizon MiFi. Neither was working well on the tarmac and I had to restart the download once. I felt like I was on an episode of 24 trying to download that app. I may have violated and FAA regulation or two, but LITERALLY just as the pilot revved the engines for takeoff, the icon changed to “OPEN.”  That was the beginning of the end – perhaps the worst decision of 2013. I sat between the kids and they coached me for 6 1/2 hours. We’re like a Candy Crush team now.

Oh, Happy 7th Birthday, Olivia!