East Coast Trip
Ok, so now I’m back. On Monday evening, Steph and Zach dropped me off at the airport at around 5:30pm. I easily made it to the gate as there was no line to check bags and no security line. At the bar a very nice couple (the woman worked for Alaska Airlines) took pity on my flying story and bought me a drink. So that was a good start to an otherwise crappy day.
My flight to LA was ontime and unadventurous. Boy, do I not miss LA. It’s brighter than the sun at night - the city is lit that well. LAX sucks as a airport - not very clean. Plus, at 10pm at night it’s very busy with many people flying but everything is closed. I walked through 3 terminals and I could only get a bite to eat at Mcdonalds. My flight to Washington DC was on time. I slept most of the way there - probably about 3 to 3.5 hours of sleep.
I arrived in DC at 7:15am and I made it to our hotel lobby by 8:15am (that was the time we were meeting in the lobby). I picked my coworkers who flew in from Seattle (different flight) and Dublin and proceded to our datacenters. Overall it was a good work day. I slept very well that night 
The next day I worked at the datacenter during the morning and caught a 3:40pm flight to Boston. That was ontime. We (me and 2 coworkers) got a rental car and proceeded to the hotel (Boston Park Plaza). This is where I learned that Boston is one of the most complicated cities to drive in. Yep, we got lost - ended up in Beacon Hill (very beautiful area). We eventually found the hotel. After checkin we went for dinner at Stephanie’s on Newbury. Newbury St is the swanky shopping district. All the storefronts are on the bottom floors of brownstones - so it was very east coast and very beautiful. Dinner was very good. Some of us continued on for a drink at a place called Abe Louie’s.
The next we met with a company in Salem, NH. My first visit to New Hampshire. It was raining and a bit snowy that day and a tad on the cool side (in the 30s). We had a good meeting that day, and on the way back I made sure to go through one of the Big Dig tunnels in Boston. The company took us to Sorrelina in downtown Boston - only 3 blocks from our hotel so we walked…in an absolute downpour. I was soaked completely through which made for a slightly uncomfortable dinner. The food was excellent. My first course was homemade pasta (like rigatoni) with Kobe beef meatballs - excellent. For my main course I had scallaps which came with brussel sprouts (I can’t stand brussel sprouts) and I actually ate them without gagging.
During the day on Thursday I learned that the Denver to Seattle portion of my flight was cancelled so rebooked on a flight from Boston to DC then on to Seattle. That flight was ontime and got me home safely. Steph picked me up at the airport and then we got Zacher at daycare. He gave me a huge hug - that was nice