{"id":5099,"date":"2012-11-02T11:23:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T15:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=5099"},"modified":"2012-11-07T14:50:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T19:50:19","slug":"hanging-in-there-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=5099","title":{"rendered":"Hanging in There – Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday – November 2, 2012<\/span><\/p>\n

The temperatures were steadily dropping and the house was very cold. \u00a0We had braved two more cold nights at home and roamed northern Westchester by day seeking warm places to hang out. \u00a0I felt like a homeless person seeking food and the warmth of shelter. \u00a0This morning Jeff said, “Let’s pack a bag and get out of here!” \u00a0So we did. \u00a0We packed our small travel suitcases, grabbed our cameras and portable computers, and drove away with no particular destination. \u00a0I had always wanted to do this, but in more positive circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n

We only got as far as Brewster, NY and drove into the parking lot of the Ever-Ready Diner on Route 84. \u00a0They had power and internet service and we wanted lunch. \u00a0Jeff did a Google search of available hotels and found one room in Norwalk, Connecticut so we grabbed it. \u00a0It took almost an hour to drive to the Hilton Garden Inn and we found it easily with Jeff’s “talking lady”. \u00a0That’s what we call his portable GPS. \u00a0We checked in and asked why they had rooms available when no one else did. \u00a0The young man behind the desk said that someone had mistakenly double booked ten rooms and when the error was noted those rooms became available. \u00a0We were lucky enough to be searching at just that moment. \u00a0Now, an hour later, there were NO rooms left for the rest of the week. \u00a0There were so many people without power that all the hotels in the area were full and charging top rates.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first thing we did when we entered the room was turn up the heat! \u00a0After the room was toasty, I took a nice long bath in really hot water. \u00a0For tonight, we had a warm place to sleep. \u00a0So nice……<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday – November 2, 2012 The temperatures were steadily dropping and the house was very cold. \u00a0We had braved two more cold nights at home and roamed northern Westchester by day seeking warm places to hang out. \u00a0I felt like a homeless person seeking food and the warmth of shelter. \u00a0This morning Jeff said, “Let’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-local-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5099"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5118,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099\/revisions\/5118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}