We got up xtra early. Bags packed and ready to go. Phone, cords, everything else on the list-Check. Wait! Where are the passports? ! OK ...breathe, I'm mean we haven't left the house since we saw them last, and they should be with the boarding passes. RIGHT?! After a 45 minute grid search of our apartment -including the suitcases, trash, laundry room and the fridge- a minor melt down and a tiny panic attack- we finally found them! They had fallen between the nigh...

20 minute. delay in Atlanta, now 20 min delay at jfk. Apparently Air Force one is landing!

So many great adventures begin in the airport..

Just in case you don't have this information. If you dump the contents of your handbag into your laptopbag, add multiple mobile Devices, chargers, sim cards,glass beverage tubes and whatnot. Security will put on their blue gloves and empty the contents of your bag( piece by piece) into (4) white bins and run them thru The xray AGAIN! Once the embarrassment of having various female items removed -publicly- from your bag you realize that you now Have to put...

Well, maybe not trains (at least not yet). After a couple conversations with our airline, we have a solution. Apparently a "weather advisory" means "sucks-to-be-you" in airline speak. (yeah I know air quotes) Initially, we were told that we'd have to pay an ungodly amount to change our tickets (a 4 digit #) sooooo.. [audible throat gulp] deep clensing breath... We hung up the phone. You, as my friends, know that I never beleive that these ...