Leaving NY

Today we had to leave New York. We got up this morning, stopped and got an egg and cheese on a roll and headed to the Edison Hotel for the last time. We dropped off our carry on bag at Mom and Aunt Jo's room and ate our egg on the roll. By the time we had finished breakfast, the bell hop was there ready to load up the bags and Aunt Jo's car was being pulled around. So we thought we would stay and see Aunt Jo, Ashley and Rylee off. We helped them get everything loaded up in the car, hugged them goodbye and sent Candie, Mom and Jannah along their way with some directions.

Then we headed over to the Discovery Place to view the Spy and Harry Potter exhibit. The Spy exhibit was the first one we saw and we got the audio tour with it. It was super interesting and Marshall really enjoyed it. It was amazing the things they showed you in there. I think maybe in another life Marshall would like to be a spy. Perhaps he would have been one in this life if he had thought about wanting to do it earlier in his life.

The Harry Potter exhibit was also pretty cool. I was actually amazed by the details in the robes. Even being in the film business I never realized how elaborate the robes were. Then we decided to head on towards the airport, not knowing how long it would take us to catch the train. Well, as fate would have it we caught a train as soon as we purchased our AirTrain tickets. Oh boy!

We got to the airport 30 minutes later and even the line to go through security wasn't that long. And I even made them do a pat down on me so I didn't have to go through the scanners. We still had 4 hours to kill before our flight! So we sat down at the only restaurant in our terminal - Ruby Tuesday - and had some lunch. We took our sweet ass time, but still only managed to kill 45 minutes. So we walked over to the little news stand, purchased a couple of books, some Twizzlers and a water and sat down at our gate to read a little and hope the hours passed by quickly. I grew very sleepy reading my book and dozed off for a bit, but Marshall powered through and read over 100 pages in his book before they started boarding our plane. We both read some more on the flight from Newark to Charlotte and by the time we landed in Charlotte Marshall was nearly halfway down with his book - Alex Cross. We made our way down to our new gate in the Charlotte airport and while I sat and read, Marshall went and grabbed us some Starbucks. I didn't get much reading in before we had to start boarding. We read some more on the way to Wilmington, despite the teeny boppers beside us jabbering away the entire flight.

By the time we landed in Wilmington, Shea was already outside waiting for us. We drove home and Shea came in to watch some X factor. We started with the previous week's episodes and by the time we got to tonight's episode I watched a couple of performances and fell asleep. Marshall and Shea stayed awake and watched it all though. I woke up just as Shea was leaving and headed off to get some real sleep in my own bed. I really enjoyed our "Baby Moon" to NY but I was glad to be home.