My View For Awhile – north bound

The morning started early to make time for chores after Mass. No stream today. The drive to the airport was smooth. I practically walked through check in and the checkpoint. I only was blocked at the door of the lounge.

I find it deeply gratifying to receive that text that my bag has been loaded on the plane which I will be on.

Meanwhile the boarding process has been… interesting. One family – parents 20s with a toddler and and infant twins, all masked up – took several minutes to deal with boarding passes. Then they brought a child seat and a stroller onto the plane. The resulting chaos with trying to put the child seat in the aisle seat and then trying to get over it to the inner seat, and out back out, dismantling everything and then getting the stroller jammed…. get the picture? Of course the baby was crying. Eventually the aft-facing baby seat went to the window seat. DUH. It took them about 15 minutes of our boarding time to get them seated.

ugh

A couple hours of this and I’ll be free.

UPDATE:

I managed to slip out of the plane before the abovementioned family started their three ring circus.   Luggage took longer than it ought have, but it came and I coordinated perfectly with my ride.   This was a smooth as one could expect.

On the way into Brooklyn from the airport there were banks and banks of daffodils, perhaps my very favoritest flower.

It doesn’t take much to please me.

Watch this space for photos of Chinese food.

UPDATE:

As promised.

Soup dumplings.  Always good.  Always a little dangerous.

Cumin Lamb.

Pork Belly with mushrooms.

Rice noodles with chicken.

Eggplant in garlic sauce.

Shrimp, walnuts, broccoli and pineapple with mayonnaise.