NYC, Part VI
A long day. Most of the morning was occupied by packing, after which we walked in Little Italy, Chinatown, Soho and TriBeCa. We were back at the apartment at 3:30, and left for the airport shortly before 4:00PM. There was a lot of trafic, but our taxi took us through secondary streets and we were in La Guardia at about 4:40. So, we though, ample time before boarding. Well, it turns out that Céline misread the itinerary: She thought we were taking off at 7:25 whereas we were arriving at this time! So we missed the plane!! The rest of it is a long story. We were put on standby on the next two flights to Miami, but could not get on. Eventually, a nice American Airines employee rerouted us to Chicago in a flight that was leaving the same evening. There was more cold sweat as the flight was horribly late (about three hours) and we were afraid it would simply be cancelled. It didn't happen. We arrived in O'Hare around 12:30am, got a room in the airport Hilton, and had a very quiet -although short- sleep.
