The family was awakened by the dinging of the warning system indicating to the staff to prepare the cabin for landing. Landing would occur within 20 minutes unless there were several planes scheduled to land at the same time.

Daniel put his book in his backpack and volunteered to carry Angie’s book in it as well. Mary, Bette and Tina had large purses which could easily accommodate their newly purchased books. Tina indicated that they would stop at the restrooms after leaving the plane and then they would head to baggage claim.  There they would meet their driver and be on their way to their New York apartment.

Tina was needing the lady’s room badly.  They had not awakened before the fasten seatbelt sign had come on and there had been no time to use the facilities on the plane. Mary, Tina and Angie retrieved the carry-on luggage rather quickly and Bette cautioned Daniel to stay with the group. They found the restrooms quickly.  The gates were virtually empty as it was 3:00 am New York time.

After visiting the restrooms, they made their long trek to baggage claim. They found a sky captain and a cart and their driver and retrieved all their luggage. The sky captain helped the driver load the luggage and Bette tipped the young man for his help. They loaded their limo and as Bette confirmed the address with the driver. They were comfortably on land again and riding through the almost deserted streets of New York City.

Bette: Okay, did everyone get some sleep?

They all responded that they did but that it wasn’t near what they needed and it wasn’t restful.

Daniel said he was hungry and Angie said she could eat.

Tina: Okay, why don’t we put our luggage in the apartment and then go to breakfast, come back to the apartment and take a 2-hour nap. Then let’s get up and hit the ground running. We’ll pick up some bagels and coffee as a snack for when we get up. Then we will eat lunch a little later and then we will decide about dinner later this afternoon.

Bette:  Sounds good to me. I could use a nap, too.

Angie:  Are we going to that deli down the street from the apartment?