<p>DS leaves on Saturday. We’ll be leaving our house WAY before the traffic picks up…his flight leaves at 6 a.m…YAWN.</p>
<p>So how was it?</p>
<p>Yes, I’m wondering, too about 1moremom’s S.<br>
Mine is somewhere on the Mass Pike (does not know exactly where) and in all probability, will need his dad to come and pick him up at the bus station as the last subway may have gone then.</p>
<p>Happy Thanksgiving to all!</p>
<p>S finally made it to Dulles a little after two a.m., too late to bother with an airport hotel. He thinks has has a flight out this morning; we’re keeping our fingers crossed. I trust your S eventually made it, Marite? (S had the same problem last year when his Amtrack train was late.)</p>
<p>Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!</p>
<p>DS just called. New flight out of Dulles is delayed. :(</p>
<p>OMG 1moremom- so sorry to hear of your DS’s travel nightmare! I hope he makes it soon today!
We were SO lucky with my DS’s flight from Chicago to Logan last evening- all on time, (and I had advised him to take the 6AM bus from South Bend to the airport in case of bad traffic TO airport. He made the 8AM bus instead, telling me now that I am way too crazy about making flights, lol!) but the 2 hour car ride home turned into 4 hours. At least he is home today! Happy Thanksgiving to all, on to meal prep for my houseful!</p>
<p>And, a further delay . . .</p>
<p>1moremom,
I keep coming back to check on progress. </p>
<p>Marite, I thought train was easier than bus (at least back in my 20’s). Assume yor S ate well once home.</p>
<p>My S has enough travel planned late Dec–seeing Paris for first time, etc.</p>
<p>And now that flight is cancelled. :(</p>
<p>^^^Oh, no!</p>
<p>1moremom: How awful!
S got home at nearly 2am. His dad had to go pick him up from South Station as the last subway had left by then. He’d had nothing to eat since lunch as he dashed from one bus to another (he had planned on buying something to eat between two buses). So I whipped up some omelet and made some toast.
We eat Thanksgiving dinner at the usual 7pm dinner time. Hoping your S will be home by then!</p>
<p>That happened to S once when his train got in at 2 a.m… He shared a cab back with another student and his GF picked him up “dinner” from Felipe’s before they closed.</p>
<p>He is now optimistic that he’ll get on a one o’clock flight. If not, we’ll drive down Dulles and pick him up. The turkey is on hold until tomorrow, but we’ll still eat the pumpkin cheesecake tonight. :)</p>
<p>Oh no 1moremom that is why no trip home for such a short weekend for my kiddos. It’s too little time for all the potential agravation. Fortunately every year he and a bunch of other kids who don’t go home have spent the long weekend skiing and making huge feasts. I talked to him yesterday and they were loading vehicles to head for the condo (one of his friends’ parent) and they had a ham, a turkey, acorn squash, sweet potatoes, broccoli, bread drying for stuffing and all the stuffing stuff, apple pie, pecan pie and pumpkin pie…those boys do know how to cook! Thank goodness for restaurant experience… I wanna be with them. His bank account is empty, but at least I know they will be eating.</p>
<p>We actual talked about driving up o Boston this year as S2 has the week off and we don’t have any family visiting. We should have gone with that plan!</p>
<p>Any news? I wonder 1moremom is driving to airport</p>
<p>He has arrived!</p>
<p>Yipee! Bring out the turkey! We have not started on ours yet.</p>
<p>Now for the return - I dropped off my daughter at 10:20am today (Sunday) at the airport.</p>
<p>She was at her gate within 20 minutes.</p>
<p>No traffic, trip was a breeze.</p>
<p>Only downside was getting her there too early, she will need to wait over two hours.</p>
<p>However, after the wild social whirl perhaps she will enjoy sitting quietly by herself for awhile.</p>
<p>I also remembered that MassPort posts airport traffic conditions, check here:</p>
<p>[MASSPORT:</a> Logan Airport: Getting to and from Logan: Boston Area Traffic](<a href=“http://www.massport.com/logan/getti_bosto.asp]MASSPORT:”>http://www.massport.com/logan/getti_bosto.asp)</p>
<p>I was probably the car next to yours with the drop off, fendrock- too bad our kids haven’t met to keep company! On route I was stopped for speeding (on Mass Pike E, clocked at 74 mph, oh well!), and passed many others in my predicament!
Got s there 2 hours early also, and he texted me that he won’t agree to leaving this early again, to which I replied “bus”! Realizing he was sounding ungrateful, he replied “but thanks for getting me here.” I will miss him, but only a few weeks until Christmas break.</p>
<p>My daughter had absolutely no problems with her Logan/O’Hare and Midway/Logan flights on Tuesday evening/Sunday evening. In fact, I got her to Midway so early, and she breezed through security so quickly that she had time to stop at the table that was offering H1N1 nasal vaccines, so she took advantage of it!</p>