New York and then some

Our trip to NY was quite the event. The short story is like this... When we arrived at Sky Harbor Thurs. eve, our red eye flight was delayed. This made us miss our connections the next morning. US Airways tried to rebook us getting us into Binghamton at 12:18 Sat. morning. Unfortunately, Kaylee needed to be at the pool Fri. evening at the latest. After much searching, and frankly, demanding on my part, half of our team got rebooked to fly to JFK in NY City arriving at 7:30 am. Binghamton is only 200 or so miles away, so we could rent a car a drive there by noon. We left JFK by 9 am and by 9:30, we had a flat tire...while in the BRONX.
Not necessarily where you want to be with 6 pale skinned females by themselves!! Luckily, this super nice guy helped us change the tire, and we were off to get it fixed.
The tire repair guy tried to fix it, but said "it probably won't hold for long, and besides, have you noticed the other 3 tires are bald?" So off we went to the "nearest" rental car stop, LaGuardia airport, to exchange the mini van for a new car. All they had was a Lincoln Navigator. Now this would not be bad, but with gas... (okay no social or political commentary here). Finally we were back on the road. Thank goodness for GPS units in the cars, or we would not have known where we were going. Pretty soon, we crossed into NJ. And then, possibly into Penn. We stopped for lunch, now noon, and had to ask the waitress what state we were in. You should have seen her face!! But yes, it was Penn. When we were just out of Scranton, PA., 67 miles from the pool, I was caught saying, only 1 more Hour or so. Famous last words. 2 miles out of town, we hit major road construction. There was no off ramps to get off the highway, even had we known where to go. We went 4 miles in 2 hours. Finally, we got to the pool in Binghamton at about 7pm. Only 7 hours late. Kaylee missed her pool practice time, and workout time. As for the other half of the team... suffice it to say, 4 different flights to 4 different cities, only to have to drive the final hour and a half to get to the pool. And the original flights we were rebooked on...either overbooked...or cancelled. We found out that had we stayed with US Airways original plan for us, we would not have arrived until Sat. afternoon...if at all!!. We stayed in this awesome Victorian home built in 1902. It had 7 bedrooms, and 4 bathrooms. It was wonderful.