The red eye from SEA/IAD was great (I think). If it wasn't, I'll never know because I slept through the entire flight. Now getting from IAD to EWR is a whole different story.

We were anxious to get home (to Manhattan) and very disappointed that our plane was delayed, and delayed, and delayed and.... We thought about switching to another plane but Joe had decided to check luggage (his and mine) so we figured waiting in Dulles was about the same as waiting in Newark. WRONG. When we got to EWR we discovered that Joe's bag had arrived on the earlier flight and that mine was among the missing.

It wasn't a thrilling morning but MaryAnn, the clerk at the baggage office really was extremely helpful. After a very delayed arrival, we filed a Lost Bag report, decided to wait 15 additional minutes for the next flight in from Dulles (just in case my bag was on it). We finally arrived at the club 4 and 1/2 hours after our ETA, grabbed lunch as we watched "would be parade goers" battle the wind and snow at the corner of 7th and 56th. By this time we really needed to take a nap and, when we awoke, ran out to buy dancing shoes, underwear, etc., etc., all the real necessities of life. This made us way too late for drinks at the Waldorf and 30 minutes late for dinner at The Supper Club.

But we got a great table on the dance floor and had a magnificent time. The music and show were fabulous and my fish was perfect (my interest in the dispensation was academic and of concern for Joe as I don't eat meat). We would have stayed and danced 'til we dropped (they close at 4:00am), but we wanted to try to hook up with the FT group at the Oak Room so we split about midnight and had wonderful subway/walking/not finding a cab adventure on our way to The Plaza, where we arrived just in time for last call.

No FlyerTalkers were to be seen. Joe was so sad to have quit dancing only to find no friends when we arrived. When we got our bill for one drink, he said "No wonder they left. I hope they found a great bar with cheap pitchers of green beer".

The sad thing is that we were counting on that connection to find out what's happening on Saturday. Now we are clueless.

Catman HELP!!!!!!



[This message has been edited by Punki (edited 03-18-2000).]