<p>Just back from dropping our daughter at the train station. Spring break is over. Guess I won’t ever get over missing her. Nine weeks till fourth quarter is over!</p>
<p>Dropped goaliegirl at the airport this morning. Shortly after the plane took off (when I arrived at my office), I looked outside and there were snow flakes falling. Nothing sticking, of course, but we were also getting flurries when she was in transit home before break. </p>
<p>Strange little coincidence that reminds me of where she is and where we are not.</p>
<p>Of course she can keep the 2+ feet of snow on the ground at school. :P</p>
<p>I’ll see her in 3.5 weeks when I bring her south for a national camp tryout, so I guess I don’t have it so bad.</p>
<p>goaliedad…good luck to your D at her camp tryout; sounds exciting!</p>
<p>We will miss our son, as well, all though he was quite excited to return to school. Their first baseball game is scheduled for April 2nd…in North Central NH…hahahahahahahaha!!! I am not quite sure how this will work?</p>
<p>Do they play with an orange baseball? Those white ones tend to get lost in the snow. LOL</p>
<p>I know that last year (before they installed the field turf) my D’s lax team had to reschedule several early games due to snow and then due to flooding. I am told though that they have plowed the field turf field (where the lax teams play), so at least they wont be out of luck for games. I imagine that practice could be shortened due to baseball/softball needing to share field time on the one field that is available.</p>
<p>With the tryout, the excitement will be after the tryout when we have exactly 1:15 from the time she steps off the ice in one end of Atlanta until her plane takes off on the other end of Atlanta. She take off her skates and leg pads and will be changing in the back of the van while rolling. Fortunately, it is Sunday afternoon and traffic should not be an issue (knock on wood).</p>
<p>Then when she gets to Boston, she will have 29 minutes to get to the pick-up location. Hopefully, the plane will not be delayed.</p>
<p>Oh, okay…maybe we can play on the lax field, then! My son’s soccer fields at his club are turf and they are surrounded by 10 foot high snowbanks which are frozen solid and speckled with the little black rubber bits from the field. Just stunning!
Sound like goaliegirl is organized and good at hustling!</p>
<p>29 minutes – yikes! My youngest just left a few minutes ago on his flight to Gulfport via Dallas. He is spending spring break with his Grandparents in Mobile, Alabama – so he should have a blast eating fresh seafood and going to the beach. He has a 4 hour layover in Dallas – so I suppose he will have the airport memorized by the end of the trip.</p>
<p>I’m not as worried about the 29 minutes as the 1:15 in Atlanta, considering she has to go through security there. It is 36 miles from the rink to the airport. Fortunately, the rink is within 200 yards of the interstate and people in Atlanta drive fast when they can. I’ve been passed by many people doing 75 in town. However, it is the lines at security that have me most concerned. I’ve already told goaliegirl to social-engineer her way to the front of the line if possible, although generally, if you have a flight leaving within 30 minutes, they will let you cut in at many airports.</p>
<p>At least she will only be carrying a backpack.</p>
<p>One tip for the Atlanta airport which I traverse through often, usually with three kids in tow. Ask the TSA folks in the First Class security line if they will let her go through that line. If she is a young person and travelling alone they might be willing, but don’t say we are about to miss a flight. They hear that all the time. On several occassions when my son (2) was crying and I was having a hard time manuvering through security they have let me through the first class line and I saved valuable time.</p>
<p>Thanks emdee!</p>
<p>We flew out of Atlanta back in 2005 on a Tuesday evening (light travel day) and the wait wasn’t bad (maybe 2 minutes) even though in those days people were struggling with tweezers. Of course, they hadn’t started the shoe inspection IIRC.</p>
<p>I’m just hoping that the lines at 12:30 on a Sunday afternoon aren’t long.</p>
<p>This was getting lost so I thought it should be back at the top. It looks like our decision is definitely made. I’m getting exited about the shopping and packing. Do any of he kids put a feather or foam top on their beds? They didn’t seem that comfortable to me.</p>
<p>Don’t buy the cheap foam (egg crate) pads. A good tempur type foam (at least 1" thick) is a good addition to the very cheap dorm matresses found in dorms. Make sure you buy the right size as most dorms use an x-long twin.</p>
<p>So, goaliedad, how did your daughter’s return flight go? Were 29 minutes enough? I hope it went smoother than her trip from school to home, and that she did well at the tryouts. Perhaps we will see her in future Olympics!</p>
<p>Trip to Atlanta is in 3 weeks. Probably will be a news blackout from this end from Friday afternoon until Sunday night that weekend (will be too busy driving goaliegirl, fetching food for breaks between sessions, and just spending quality time with her), not to mention the road trip I will take to get there.</p>
<p>I will try to get the final story out when all is said and done. Thanks for asking.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t go so far as to say Olympian, but I’m reasonably confident she will have a fufilling college hockey career.</p>
<p>Thanks for the xtra long info. I didn’t even think about the length of the bed.</p>
<p>For all new acceptances, have you secured your child’s place yet? or waiting for revisits?</p>
<p>we are waiting for revisits – deciding between two schools, so the signed contract will go out on April 9th or so. Yikes – it is so close!</p>
<p>Stef, our signed contract was actually not sent in till nearly a week later! My daughter was betwixt and between. So I called the school and explained and they were fine with it!</p>
<p>That is good to know – my gut instinct tells me that we will know after the revisit days.</p>
<p>Warriorboy – Don’t buy the mattress topper until after you receive the ‘what to bring’ list from the school. My d’s bs doesn’t allow any kind of mattress topper because it’s a fire hazard. Don’t worry…they get so used to sleeping on dorm mattresses that when they come home their nice comfy beds are <em>too</em> soft.</p>
<p>Novelisto,</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of matress toppers being banned at a school. I guess Warriorboy will have to double check with the school.</p>
<p>I’d think that if they were real fire hazards the CPSC would ban them, but what do I know.</p>
<p>And stupid question but why would these things catch fire? I hope the students aren’t smoking in bed. And I’d think that down comforters would be more ignitable than the foam pad underneath them. </p>
<p>I think schools are better off regulating the source of the ignition (electrical devices and flame sources) than the things that can catch fire.</p>
<p>But I guess a check with the school is in order.</p>