In which our heroes have adventures in the airport

I woke up at 3:30 this morning. After a quick breakfast and coffee, went to making sure the computers were all backed up and shut down. Finished packing. We left the house at 7, and were in the airport by about 8. By this time, I was in need of some espresso. We staked out seats near the Starbucks, and Kathy went to check on the flight. It was delayed and will leave at 11:05 instead of 10:15. We settle in, me playing with the computer, and Kathy laying her head on the table. Kathy goes back and checks just to make sure. Same thing. So about 10:15 we start packing up to go through security. We walk by the departure screen, and it says “departed.” We get through security as quickly as we can. We go through the line dividers and push to the front. Kathy runs off, not even putting on her shoes. I have to stop because of my CPAP machine. They are very nice at the gate, but say they announced it throughout the airport. We would have heard it. ATC released the plane suddenly and they had to go. They got us on the next plane, a couple of hours later, and this was relatively uneventful. We had not problem finding the bags that had come on the original plane.

We took the shuttle to the hotel. The driver stopped in the middle of the street with the cable car coming. A cop came yelling at him, so we rushed into the hotel. We settled into the room, and went for a walk. We checked out the gym, and then walked around looking at the offerings of the local restaurants. We stopped at an old favorite, the Caffe Espresso, and had a light dinner. We then walked through Union Square.

Then on to the Apple store, explored around and bought a cable to hook up Chris’ video camera to the laptop. We continued to explore the area, and finally went back to the room.


I pulled out Chris’ camera and noticed there was a tape still in it. There was some video of our trip to MacWorld from last year. I have to download iMovie HD because iMovie 08 won’t run on my Powerbook G4 12 inch.

I will be interested to see what is there.