Trains, Planes and Automobiles

In More pictures of our last day in New York. We took a cruise to Statten Island and had lunch there at Au Bon Pain. There a was good view of the Statue of Liberty.

Lady Liberty wanna be's in Time Square. We ate at Sapporo Restaurant, which Janene is pointing to in the upper left picture--not the bar next to it. I ate almost a whole bowl of kimchee with my sukiyaki. It was very delicious and reminded me of the good food I ate on my mission.

So good to be home after our 23 hour trip back to California. Janene and I left the Marriott at 2:30 a.m., grabbed a cab to Penn station, took the Long Island Railroad to Ronconkama, speeded by shuttle to McArthur Airport in Islip Long Island, flew to Las Vegas, got bumped off our flight and spent the day at the airport, finally catching a flight that was delayed 2 and a half hours, to Ontario, picked up 1/2 hour late by Christian because on his way to pick us up,, a semi truck full of carrots had tipped over on the freeway (carrots everywhere.) Christian then drove us to LAX where our luggage ended up at the last minute because there was no room in the overhead bins at Islip . (Christian you're a saint for helping us out so willlingly.) We then dropped a very tired Janene off at her dad's birthday dinner in Torrance, picked up my car in front of Janene's, drove the two hours back to the mountains, and now you know why I am so glad to be home!
I was so glad to see Andrew, Christian and the girls again. I always get a little homesick when I travel.

Thanks Judie and Janene for your patience with my travel arrangements and for the many fun memories we created. I hope your 50's are the best decade of your life.

There's no place like home