I cannot believe tomorrow is June 1. This year has seemed to fly by faster than any year before. It's just crazy.
The first of our summer trips is coming up: AS, NT and I fly to New York for my 20-year college reunion. We leave early Thursday morning, REALLY early. Since I had Monday off, that means a two-day work week.
The kids are staying here. Thursday and Friday, our downstairs neighbors will be taking care of them. Then Saturday (maybe beginning Friday night), another good friend will be staying over at our place and taking care of the kids until we get back Sunday night. Neither of them is charging us anything to do this, but we'll be sure to leave some cash just to cover the extra expense of feeding, transporting and entertaining the kids!
Our downstairs neighbors are out of town at one of THEIR 20-year college reunions. They come back tonight sometime. That gives them a break of one full day before they take over parenting two kids for a couple of days! We need to touch base with them to work out the logistics of where the kids will sleep Wednesday night and the other nights they'll be watching them.
We also need to finalize our plans for Thursday and Sunday, when we'll have some time outside of the reunion to explore NYC. I know we're thinking we'll do Manhattan on the Thursday (possibly meeting up with a friend) and Brooklyn on Sunday (meeting up with two or more friends). We know for food, we want to do soul food, dim sum and pizza, so we just need to figure out which ones we'll do Thursday vs. Sunday. NT also wants to browse a record store. I did at some point have a vague plan mapped out, but I didn't bookmark anything, so we'll need to figure it out again tonight and tomorrow.
I know it'll be easier to figure things out on the fly without having the kids with us, but I still feel like I need some idea of what we're doing. We're going to do public transportation vs. renting a car, so we need to figure out how to get from the airport to the city to my college on Thursday, then to Brooklyn and back to the airport on Sunday. The hotel we chose while at the reunion is about a mile away from the college, so that's an easy walk. While at the reunion, our schedule and meals are all taken care of, so we don't have to worry about that.
Once we get back from New York, AA will only have two days of kindergarten left! And I have only two full weeks of work then a four-day week before our trip to England and (for the grownups) Spain.
There's also a daycare sleepover mid-month. What a crazy month! So far, July (once we get back the 9th) and August look very uneventful. I think that'll be a relief!
Beginning of a jam-packed month
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cab ($52 plus at least $7 in tolls plus tip $11? = $70, or $23 per person) would take about an hour.
AirTrain $7.50 per person plus subway $2.75 per person, so $10.25 per person or $30.75 total, this is about an hour and a half ride with one transfer (from AirTrain to nearby subway). I think we'll try and do this -- saving $39 is pretty compelling and hopefully worth the trouble of figuring out tickets, where to board etc.
May 31st, 2016 at 09:39 pm 1464730789
Shoot me an email (can you see the email of your commenters?) and I am happy to help!
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