The Godfather Chronicles

Thursday September 18 – 11:00AM

Im going on a little trip to Dayton Ohio to see my beautiful five-month old goddaughter Sofia so I thought I’d keep a blog while I’m gone. This will mostly come in the airport out of boredom but we’ll see how it goes.

I left the house this morning at 10AM. My sister, Megan, was gracious enough to take me to the airport. Had I left in my car and driven to Dayton, I would probably get there around 6PM. As it turns out, that’s earlier than I will get there anyway. My flight is due in at 6:40PM but that’s mostly airport time. I still have close to an hour to go here in Allentown and then a big three and a half hour wait in Detroit. At least I can stop at a bar and have a bite to eat and a beer or two… oh wait, not on this diet… more on that later.

My day of waiting got off to a good start as I stood in line at the Northwest Airlines check-in counter for a good 20 to 30 minutes. It seems that the sign that gave the hours of operation was indeed operational. Finally not one but three girls came out of the back to help the line of people waiting. I don’t know what they were doing back there but I’m sure whatever it was didn’t involve three people. And what’s with the $15 charge to check my luggage? It’s their job to get me from one place to another. Is it not also their job to make sure my bag gets there as well? What did I already pay for? Its like going to a restaurant and paying $65 for dinner and then an extra $15 for the use of the plates, glasses and silverware.

So I’m on this pretty intense diet that involves a bar for breakfast and lunch and then a shake as a midmorning snack and an afternoon snack. If there is one place you don’t want to look suspicious, it’s the airport. I can only imagine how I looked as I’m trying to measure out 8 oz of water in my “beaker-type” jar and pouring a powdery substance into the water. What a great place to do a science experiment – Gate 7 at Lehigh Valley International Airport. At least there weren’t a lot of people around to watch me drink the stuff. I can’t wait to do it in a few hours in Detroit!

I can’t say enough about how excited I am to see Tim, Jess and Sofia. I flew out for her baptism in May and then I saw them a few times when they were home in July. She’s growing so fast these days from what they tell me. I didn’t want to wait until Christmas to see her so I figured I’d take a few days to go out now and see how she is doing.

I’ll try to check in from time to time while I’m gone. Don’t miss me too much.