My man A.P.B.

So yesterday....Andy Poe-Bowdren was SUPPOSED to be flying home---heavy emphasis on "supposed to" there---to spend winter break with us. Well you might have read about the recent weather they've been having in the midwest and yesterday in the New York City area. They got hit with something like 12 inches of snow right in the middle of the afternoon. And, you guess it....when do you suppose that Andy was due to fly out?Those of you who guessed middle of the afternoon can put your hands down and receive full credit. Now, mind you....we had heard ahead of time that the system was bearing down on the northeast, and Andy's mom attempted to change his flight to earlier in the day and called Andy to tell him that. Andy was....ahem.....sleeping and missed the call. So his mom could not change the flight. So he goes to the airport, and finds out that his flight has been delayed. Now, just to make things really, really interesting....his school has reportedly CLOSED FOR THE WINTER BREAK. Luckily, Andy had a friend from school who had mentioned to him that if there was any sort of problem with the weather that Andy could stay with him and his family.

On Staten Island.

So Andy hangs out in the airport for a couple of hours more....the snow is just coming down in incredible amounts until finally, the flight is cancelled. His mom is driving home and attempting to contact the airlines to get Andy on a later flight at the same time. She gets through and is arranging for him to leave on Saturday (today) in the middle of the afternoon. She has almost completed the arrangements when....She loses her signal on her cellphone and the call is disconnected.By the time she gets back with the airline, the flight in mid-afternoon is now booked solid--and she can only get Andy on a flight that will get into Ft Lauderdale (allegedly) around 1 am on Sunday morning. So she gets back in touch with Andy, who is waiting in line at the Newark Airport trying to arrange his own reschedule, and tells him to get out of line and call his friend to let him know that he is going to need that place to stay for the evening. So now Andy takes the train from the airport where he connects with the Staten Island Ferry which takes him to the subway that takes him to Staten Island where his friend is waiting with HIS family and then......well by this time, Kim is pretty much freaking out wondering if our son is wandering aimlessly around greater New York City.But ya know what? He made it. On his own.

Pretty much without anyone else's help but his own.It kind of reminded me when I took a flight from Miami to Tokyo and pretty much had to find my way from the airport to the hotel and there was absolutely no one that spoke English.Except I was 26 at the time...and my son is 19.

And when he does make it home....I'm gonna look at him with just a little more respect that I did yesterday.

Later,Jeff