Friday June 6.

The Players. Myself, my Beautiful wife and my special little daughter. Also coming along for the ride are my mother-in-law and my wife's aunt.

Our flight is supposed to leave Miami International Airport at 7:15 a.m. The key word here being "supposed." We arrive at the terminal and as my wife is parking our van I am pulling most of the luggage into the sliding glass doors. I look up and see that on the LCD screens, the only flight on the board with a red "canceled" in the status bar is our 7:15 flight to Boston. So now things get interesting.

All of us had booked our flights at the same time, but we all booked them different ways, some with mileage points some just straight flight bookings. Well all of the transactions did not get put into one record, so we all got automatically booked onto different flights. Big hassle. But if it were not for an amazing counter staff person at American Airlines we would all be flying alone (except for my daughter who was flying with my wife.) Trust me, in situations like this it pays to be nice and calm. People will be willing to go that extra mile for you if you do not make their day a living hell.

So at 4:30 p.m. we arrive in Boston. A shuttle for the Double Tree I booked comes to get us.

Lesson #2 of the trip. Weigh your hotel options carefully. Yes we got a free ride from the Airport and a free ride to the Port the next day, but the hotel I choose was in the middle of the University of Mass. A very nice campus, but nothing for us tourist to do. We had to take a cab to the middle of town just to get dinner and do a bit of walking around. But on the other hand, if I had stayed in the DoubleTree downtown, right in the middle of all of the action. We would have hd to pay for the cab ride from the airport and to the port. Overall we like to stay at DoubleTree's because they consistantly have good rooms and comfy beds.

We planned on getting into Boston at noon and taking a Trolley hop on, hop off tour, but now it was to late. Oh well we would have to see Boston on some other trip. But for the little we saw, Boston is a real nice town. Old world inner city charm.

Stay tuned for Day two.........

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