We started our new England mini vacation around 3pm (we both worked in the morning). I went back to my house and packed (as Jeremy says I’m incapable of packing before the day I’m leaving for a trip, my excuse is Ty doesn’t like seeing the suitcase, and that way I find I’m also less likely to forget things), and Jeremy came by at 3:30 to pick me up for the airport. We left out of Norfolk this time rather than our usual Richmond so we left 3 hours before our flight as we had to go through the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel…in the summer…on a Friday afternoon, so hitting beach traffic backups was almost a guarantee. We arrived after an hour and a half (a traffic free trip would normally be an hour).
We got through security and arrived at our gate with about an hour and change to spare then were informed the plane out of Philadelphia was delayed by 40 minutes. A lot of folks who had connecting flights had to rebook on different airlines or fly out later in the weekend unfortunately, we were lucky in that we had about two hours between flights so we had a bit of a cushion and were able to even have time for a beer (Magic Hat #9) and a snack at a little cafe right across from our gate in Philadelphia.
Our flight to New Haven was on a tiny prop plane (not Jeremy’s favorite option), it was rather loud so Jeremy and I opted to simultaneously watch an episode of Alton Brown’s “Feasting on Asphalt” on our iPads for the duration of the flight (it looked totally geeky I’m sure but it worked quite well once we got them playing at the same time). We landed in the (tiny!) Tweed New Haven airport and were picked up by Jeremy’s mom Eileen (we walked off the plane and she was waiting on the other side of the chain link fence, yes fence, although we did have to walk through the “terminal” to get to the parking lot) and headed back to her condo.
Even though it was late we decided to stay up and chat and catch up out on Eileen’s back porch with a glass of wine (Lobster Cove “Life’s a Beach” 2008 Chardonnay, really nice, citrusy, unoaked Chardonnay) and cheese and pita chips (I was hungry so this was awesome). Her condo backs up to the woods and a little stream so it was really nice sitting out there (and very few bugs, unlike Williamsburg) and after chatting we headed to bed around midnight. Tomorrow’s plan is to visit a local winery around lunchtime then head to Jeremy’s uncle’s place on Burr Creek in the afternoon for a cookout.
