{"id":6286,"date":"2017-08-08T22:51:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T02:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=6286"},"modified":"2017-08-30T14:49:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T18:49:50","slug":"august-4-6-days-35-36-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/?p=6286","title":{"rendered":"August 4-6, Days 35, 36, 37"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been delinquent in my blogging. Here’s an update for the past several days…. still at Newport Yacht Club & Marina in Jersey City (across the Hudson River from lower Manhattan).<\/p>\n

Friday, August 4 – Day 35<\/p>\n

Ed & I had a quiet day in the marina. I washed the boat & Ed explored the neighborhood. After that we went over to the shopping mall across the street from the marina. The place was huge, with 4 major department stores plus dozens of franchise stores & a huge food court. This place would easily rival some of the biggest malls in Toronto.<\/p>\n

The mall had a multi-screen movie theatre so we went to see a matinee of the new movie “Dunkirk” & then Ed took me out for dinner at the Cheesecake Factory restaurant that was also in the mall. We each had a slice o the key lime cheesecake for dessert & it was awesome!<\/p>\n

Ed was supposed to fly home Sunday morning but for some unknown reason Porter Airlines cancelled his flight on Sunday morning to Toronto & rescheduled him for Monday morning. That was unacceptable so we spent over an hour on hold with the airline until we finally got an agent & managed to get him on a flight the next morning (Saturday) but that was not to be. Read on….<\/p>\n

Saturday, August 5, Day 36<\/p>\n

We got up at 3:30am so Ed could take an Uber to Newark airport for a flight home departing at 6:50am. I checked my email as soon as I got up & saw an email from Porter Airlines informing Ed that his flight had been cancelled & rescheduled to Monday morning. This was no good so we ultimately gave up on Porter & booked a flight for Sunday afternoon on Westjet from LaGuardia Airport. What a mess!<\/p>\n

We finally went back to bed around 5:00am & slept until 10:00am.<\/p>\n

We had a light lunch & then I walked over to a nearby grocery store & got some groceries for supper & breakfast the next morning. Ed did his laundry & chilled on the boat.<\/p>\n

The marina Dockmaster asked us to move a few feet down the dock to accommodate another boat so we relocated without starting the engine. Our boat was still the “lead dog” in the pack! We may be the smallest but we were still in front of the rest! Note the size symmetry.
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\nWe BBQ’d steaks for supper & turned in early in anticipation of flights coming & going as scheduled the next day.
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\nSunday, August 6, Day 37<\/p>\n

I decided to do laundry early in the morning before Catherine arrived. Oh, the cruising life is so exciting & exotic!<\/p>\n

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\nI finished up the laundry just before noon & then it was time for Ed to take an Uber to LaGuardia for his flight home. An hour later I was in an Uber to Newark Airport to meet Catherine.<\/p>\n

She arrived at 5:00 & we took another Uber back to the marina. It has been over a month since I last saw her so it was a great reunion.
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\nThe weather was great for her arrival & the boat passed it’s initial inspection.
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\nEven the moon was coming out full for Catherine’s arrival.
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\nCheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been delinquent in my blogging. Here’s an update for the past several days…. still at Newport Yacht Club & Marina in Jersey City (across the Hudson River from lower Manhattan). Friday, August 4 – Day 35 Ed & I had a quiet day in the marina. I washed the boat & Ed explored the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-cruise"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ppZJ-1Do","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6286"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6554,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286\/revisions\/6554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knotsnplots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}