BACK TO NEW YORK, BUT FIRST HELLO CHARLOTTE.

I hadn’t been to Charlotte Douglas Airport in years, and not for nothing, the Sports Diva really isn’t a fan of this airport.

There is wifi in the airport but does it work?

No not really.

Are we kidding right now Charlotte Douglas airport?

The Sports Diva has a Stanley Cup playoff game to watch and the wifi on my phone isn’t working.

Charlotte airport is bigger than I remember but it was many years ago that I went through this airport and I didn’t remember changing terminals like I did this time.

I was in Terminal B and my flight was supposed to leave from Terminal D Gate 5.

This should have given me an idea of how the flight was going to go.

My flight was supposed to leave from Gate 5 but when I looked at the flight that was leaving from Gate 5, it wasn’t going to LGA, it was going to Columbus, Ohio .

My flight was going to leave at 9:56pm and get into LaGuardia around 11:45pm.

I said supposed to because due to mechanical problems, plane coming in at 10pm and thunderstorms and lightning, my flight didn’t leave until almost 11 and it was now from Gate 5 again, not Gate 11 which I was at.

My flight as with most flights coming and going out of the three New York area airports, was packed.

I had an aisle but someone was sitting in the middle seat.

I didn’t get to LaGuardia until almost 1:15am and because the Sports Diva lives closer to JFK, than I do to LaGuardia, I finally arrived home at around 2:30am.

Thank you to my Lyft driver for being there when he said he would and for being at the right pick up location.

I had fun on my 30 Plus Teams Tour of Las Vegas, it was the leaving New York and coming back to New York that wasn’t so much fun.

RIDING ON AMERICAN AIRLINES BACK TO NEW YORK CITY

The Sports Diva’s awesome 30 Plus Teams Tour of Las Vegas ended on June 3 and it was time to go back to the craziness that is New York City.

My friend and I really wanted to stay one more day in Vegas because the NHL Stanley Cup Finals were starting in town at the T Mobile Arena, aka “The Fortress”.

Now while the Sports Diva wasn’t going to mortgage the house or blow her rent money on a ticket to see the game between the Florida Panthers and Vegas Golden Knights, I could do the next best thing.

Go to a watch party at Stadium Swim inside the CIRCA Hotel and Casino.

The great thing about this is if you wore ANTHING that said Vegas Golden Knights on it, like a hat, shirt, jersey, you could get in for free.

This is what my friend and did on May 29th, Memorial Day when there was a watch party at Stadium Swim for the Vegas Golden Knights and Dallas Stars were playing.

My plane ticket on American Airlines wouldn’t allow for any changes so my 30 Plus Teams Tour of Las Vegas had to come to an end on June 3rd.

American Airlines unlike Frontier, has WiFi, so I watched two movies, 80 For Brady and 35 at the Garden, the story of former New York Knicks basketball player, Jeremy Lin.

Needless to say, I liked both movies and don’t judge, you just know that the Sports Diva was going to find movies that were sports related.

The next leg of my flight home takes me through the “Queen City”, Charlotte, North Carolina.

I will be at the airport when the Stanley Cup game comes on, but you’d better believe the Sports Diva will be watching from high above the skies of Charlotte.

COMING INTO THE “NEW” LAGUARDIA AIRPORT

Many years ago when now President Joe Biden was the Vice President, he didn’t win many friends in New York by comparing New York City’s other airport, LaGuardia, or LGA, to a “Third World ” airport.

This didn’t sit well with many New York politicians, including then governor Andrew Cuomo, who grew up in the borough of Queens where LaGuardia is located.

JFK is located in Queens as well, but they’re ALWAYS adding more terminals to it and there’s even a hotel right near the runway.

LaGuardia is different.

Nothing has happened to that airport in years, so those of us who have flown out of LaGuardia, agreed with Vice President Biden.

Not only does it look like a Third World airport, not for nothing and sorry not sorry, LaGuardia looked like a dump compared to JFK and even the other New York area airport, Newark Liberty over in New Jersey.

When I returned from my 30 Plus Teams Tour of Las Vegas, I flew into the “new LaGuardia” at Terminal B, which looks NOTHING like a Third World airport.

It’s a beautiful terminal and it reminds me of a lot of United States airports that I’ve been to, especially BWI, the other Washington DC area airport.

If JFK wasn’t close by my house, (basically in my backyard) I’d fly out of LaGuardia a lot more.

There’s a lot more work that needs to be done at LaGuardia but in the words of many a preacher, “We’re not where we wanna be, but Thank God, we’re not where we used to be!”

I MADE IT TO LGA, TOO BAD MY BAG DIDN’T

After five days and four nights of a great 30 Plus Teams Tour of Las Vegas, it was time to go back to New York City.

I came in to Las Vegas on February 1st from JFK on a Delta Airlines flight, I was returning to LGA on Saturday, February 5th on a Southwest Airlines flight with a stopover in Denver.

I had a little bit of time, so I brought myself a blended Matcha Green Tea and waited to board.

The flight from Denver was quicker than I thought it would be.

As usual, we had to taxi because after all, it is New York City, there’s traffic even on airport runways.

I waited for my bag just like other passengers,but while they were getting their bags, my little blue bag was no where to be found.

My next step was to go to the Southwest Airlines baggage office to see just what was happening here.

The agent looked at his computer and said, “Miss Lawery, your bag didn’t transfer from Denver Airport, so we’re putting it on the flight to St. Louis to LGA. I’m sorry for the delay.”

Great, my bag is travelling to another place before it gets to New York, meanwhile the Sports Diva is going to fight traffic on a Saturday night ride back to another part of Queens.

The baggage claim agent asked me to describe my bag and what was in it .

“Light blue with lots of Vegas Golden Knights stickers on it. There’s clothes ,toiletries, and two bottles of booze in it”

The Sports Diva has her priorities, and of course my bag has stickers of some sports team on it.

I was told that my bag would be delivered to wherever I was staying.

Not to be a jerk which I could have been, my reply was, home, I’m going back to my house.

A day later, I’m still waiting for my bag, which still hasn’t been delivered yet, but that’s not their fault.

I just haven’t been home and neither has anyone else.