While in New York - July 5th
Well… I’m sitting here in the airport terminal waiting for our flight which should take off in ohhhh I don’t know 7 HOURS! Sheesh… I haven’t had this much ME time since before Kaleb and Brynn were born. Ian was always an easy kid, very self intertaining and ‘lego’ motivated so before Kaleb and Brynn both Jaynie and I had time to ourselves every once in while. Now having time to myself just feels like something is wrong. It’s kind of like the feeling you get when you suddenly realize the house has been quiet for far too long. You are enjoying the quiet, you don’t want to lose the quiet, but you know the kids are getting into something they shouldn’t be. They drawing murals on the walls, taking apart the vacuum cleaner, or found some paint you left out and are painting the furniture….. that’s how I feel right now.
Leaving last night was hard on both of us. The kids were so busy with fireworks they didn’t want to give us too many hugs and kisses. I suppose that was best for them. At 4 and 2 they don’t realize just how long Mom and Dad are going to be gone. I am alredy missing / worrying about them, but we have a great neighbor who is going out of her way to help us. Our children are staying with her.
Last night we met a lady Jaynie has been emailing, who adopted from Ukraine a year or so ago. She showed up at the airport to see us off and offer words of encouragement. That was something we both really appreciated and neither of us could believe she went out of her way to do. Both of us are very nervous. I don’t think we are so nervous about the travel, but about leaving our children, about the whole process once we get there, and about how many things could go wrong in this whole process. We are going on faith right now.
On the flight we sat by a girl who was commute-dating a guy from Utah, she lives in New York. It sounded like she did most of the traveling in the relationship but I could be wrong. She helped us out with all of the amenities of Jet Blue. Every seat has a TV screen, you can get more than one snack but you have to ask, and you get the entire can of pop instead of a small glass full of more ice than drink. Those are all the good things about Jet Blue. The bad things are that you can’t really watch TV because the flights leave so late you can hardly keep you eyes open. You’re in coach so even if you do fall asleep you will wake up a few minutes later with a sore neck and run the risk of drooling on your neighbor or having them drool on your while they/you are in a semi-comatose/awake state that doesn’t really resemble slumber. But the flight is cheap and non-stop so the pro-s out way the con’s in my book.
Once at JFK airport we asked for directions to Airosvit. I don’t’ know why but I always seem to get in the wrong line. This time was no exception. The travel information booth had two people. We got in the shortest line… thinking the shortest line would be the quickest right? Wrong! We had a lady who had to clean her counter, then she had to tell the lady next to her, who had already helped 10 people the entire time we had been sitting in front of the first lady, to help her clean the entire booth. After the booth was clean, and then cleaned again, and then our ‘helper’ lady’s hands were wiped very carefully about oh… 10 FREAKIN TIMES!! She sat in front of her computer screen saying the computers were slow, mean while the lady next to her had de-queued another 10 people from her line. Finally our lady actually started typing on her computer (computers are really slow if you don’t type on them) and gave us the information we wanted. “Ok, what you want to do is go out these doors and go left. Then take your next left. And you can Walk to terminal 4.” Great I thought. That won’t be too bad… nice easy instructions, left then left. I can handle that. I walked out the doors, turned left and found a large… make that very large line waiting for taxis. I couldn’t keep going. Ok… time to ask another person. The next person said “go right then left and keep left till you get to terminal 4.” So we went right. We were outside now and right took us into another building. Ok.. time to ask another person. This person said take the Air train by taking this elevator and then going left then right and you would be at the Air Train. With my current experiences of understanding peoples instructions here I decided that I would chance walking instead and asked for walking instructions. The lady looked at me like walking was a novel idea and said “Cross the street.”
Ouch… so we crossed the street, turned left and kept walking. About 2 minutes later we saw terminal 4 and, when we got there, crashed on the seats for several more hours of not-so-good sleep.
Well… I’m sitting in a booth right now and my back is hurting because it’s a metal booth and kind of square. One thing I have noticed about JFK is it’s not quite as clean as the Salt Lake City airport, the people have a lot more additude but they are still very helpful even if I don’t understand what they are explaining to me all the time.
Kyle
Leaving last night was hard on both of us. The kids were so busy with fireworks they didn’t want to give us too many hugs and kisses. I suppose that was best for them. At 4 and 2 they don’t realize just how long Mom and Dad are going to be gone. I am alredy missing / worrying about them, but we have a great neighbor who is going out of her way to help us. Our children are staying with her.
Last night we met a lady Jaynie has been emailing, who adopted from Ukraine a year or so ago. She showed up at the airport to see us off and offer words of encouragement. That was something we both really appreciated and neither of us could believe she went out of her way to do. Both of us are very nervous. I don’t think we are so nervous about the travel, but about leaving our children, about the whole process once we get there, and about how many things could go wrong in this whole process. We are going on faith right now.
On the flight we sat by a girl who was commute-dating a guy from Utah, she lives in New York. It sounded like she did most of the traveling in the relationship but I could be wrong. She helped us out with all of the amenities of Jet Blue. Every seat has a TV screen, you can get more than one snack but you have to ask, and you get the entire can of pop instead of a small glass full of more ice than drink. Those are all the good things about Jet Blue. The bad things are that you can’t really watch TV because the flights leave so late you can hardly keep you eyes open. You’re in coach so even if you do fall asleep you will wake up a few minutes later with a sore neck and run the risk of drooling on your neighbor or having them drool on your while they/you are in a semi-comatose/awake state that doesn’t really resemble slumber. But the flight is cheap and non-stop so the pro-s out way the con’s in my book.
Once at JFK airport we asked for directions to Airosvit. I don’t’ know why but I always seem to get in the wrong line. This time was no exception. The travel information booth had two people. We got in the shortest line… thinking the shortest line would be the quickest right? Wrong! We had a lady who had to clean her counter, then she had to tell the lady next to her, who had already helped 10 people the entire time we had been sitting in front of the first lady, to help her clean the entire booth. After the booth was clean, and then cleaned again, and then our ‘helper’ lady’s hands were wiped very carefully about oh… 10 FREAKIN TIMES!! She sat in front of her computer screen saying the computers were slow, mean while the lady next to her had de-queued another 10 people from her line. Finally our lady actually started typing on her computer (computers are really slow if you don’t type on them) and gave us the information we wanted. “Ok, what you want to do is go out these doors and go left. Then take your next left. And you can Walk to terminal 4.” Great I thought. That won’t be too bad… nice easy instructions, left then left. I can handle that. I walked out the doors, turned left and found a large… make that very large line waiting for taxis. I couldn’t keep going. Ok… time to ask another person. The next person said “go right then left and keep left till you get to terminal 4.” So we went right. We were outside now and right took us into another building. Ok.. time to ask another person. This person said take the Air train by taking this elevator and then going left then right and you would be at the Air Train. With my current experiences of understanding peoples instructions here I decided that I would chance walking instead and asked for walking instructions. The lady looked at me like walking was a novel idea and said “Cross the street.”
Ouch… so we crossed the street, turned left and kept walking. About 2 minutes later we saw terminal 4 and, when we got there, crashed on the seats for several more hours of not-so-good sleep.
Well… I’m sitting in a booth right now and my back is hurting because it’s a metal booth and kind of square. One thing I have noticed about JFK is it’s not quite as clean as the Salt Lake City airport, the people have a lot more additude but they are still very helpful even if I don’t understand what they are explaining to me all the time.
Kyle
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