HAPPY OLD YEAR!

It's the end of 2007, and we're about 3,000 miles away from the party at Steven and Emily's where we thought we were going to be.

That's right, we're still in New England. This morning, Amy and I and her mom and John woke up at 3:30am to drive to Albany, New York to board our flight to Orange County. However, it had started snowing the night before and the snow had piled up. What's worse, many of the roads hadn't been plowed, so we 4x4'ed at about 30 mph until we got the Mass Pike where we still couldn't go full speed.

We arrived at the airport much later than we wanted to and Continental didn't have tickets for us! Our original flight to the OC had been canceled and I had rescheduled everything on the phone Sunday. So we were floating around in their network, but had no tickets! Next, we went on over to Delta and tried to figure out what to do. They offered us a trip home today, but it would have gone from Albany to Charlotte to Atlanta to Minneapolis to Orange County. In fact, as I write this (8:00pm ET), we'd still be in the air on the way to the OC.

Needless to say, we declined that option and decided to stay an extra day and fly from Albany to JFK to Orange County on New Year's Day.

Tonight for dinner we ate lobster, clams and shrimp. It was glorious! Bottomfeeders, dad!

Have a wonderful New Year's; I doubt we'll up for it since we have to wake up around the same time tomorrow morning.

Goodbye 2007.