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In Which We Return Home
May. 25th, 2026 06:34 pmI did get a late checkout for A.’s room at noon, but we wound up getting out pretty close to official checkout time. My sister’s ticket change didn’t go through, so she had to head out early to get that figured. She wound up having to rebuy a ticket home, but apparently got it for pretty cheap.
I kept eying the 11:30 Acela and not being willing to commit to it. It would have been a few hundred more each, because it was day-of (I started looking the night before). In the event, we had breakfast in the room, popped into the geology panel and the science fact / science fiction panel, walked around the dealer rooms and bought a few more odds and ends (notably pins) and then walked over to Miss Shirley’s for lunch. It was a half hour wait, so A. went to the bathroom, I was seated and placed an order and after an hour in the loo she finally joined me. Her non response to multiple texts and calls and the really long delay resulted in me actually starting to feel ill. So I kept calling until she finally picked up and she came out eventually.
After Miss Shirley’s we went to the B&O Museum and I took a ton of pictures and sent them to M. So that was fun. A couple of really good signs explaining things like the Whyte wheel notation and naming scheme. Fun stuff.
After B&O, we retrieved our luggage and went to Penn Station. I asked A. about 40 minutes before the train was due if she needed to use the bathroom, because all of her recent trips had run 35 minutes or more. She said no, but at about 25 minutes until departure, she decided she had to go. I said okay, but I went in with her and made absolutely certain she really clearly understood that she could not delay.
We took the elevator down to the track and boarded and we got a new trainset! Woot! I got her a hotdog, an apple juice and a cookie and I got me a woodford and a pellegrino. We ate all the fruit (2 apples, 2 bananas and a couple oranges, so it actually wasn’t unreasonable ; we split it more or less in half). I tried the vegan chocolate fudge, which is fine. She had some of the snickerdoodles. I had a half of one of the portuguese buns with peanut butter. She wanted two hot dogs; I told her she could have a second one after an hour.
I kept eying the 11:30 Acela and not being willing to commit to it. It would have been a few hundred more each, because it was day-of (I started looking the night before). In the event, we had breakfast in the room, popped into the geology panel and the science fact / science fiction panel, walked around the dealer rooms and bought a few more odds and ends (notably pins) and then walked over to Miss Shirley’s for lunch. It was a half hour wait, so A. went to the bathroom, I was seated and placed an order and after an hour in the loo she finally joined me. Her non response to multiple texts and calls and the really long delay resulted in me actually starting to feel ill. So I kept calling until she finally picked up and she came out eventually.
After Miss Shirley’s we went to the B&O Museum and I took a ton of pictures and sent them to M. So that was fun. A couple of really good signs explaining things like the Whyte wheel notation and naming scheme. Fun stuff.
After B&O, we retrieved our luggage and went to Penn Station. I asked A. about 40 minutes before the train was due if she needed to use the bathroom, because all of her recent trips had run 35 minutes or more. She said no, but at about 25 minutes until departure, she decided she had to go. I said okay, but I went in with her and made absolutely certain she really clearly understood that she could not delay.
We took the elevator down to the track and boarded and we got a new trainset! Woot! I got her a hotdog, an apple juice and a cookie and I got me a woodford and a pellegrino. We ate all the fruit (2 apples, 2 bananas and a couple oranges, so it actually wasn’t unreasonable ; we split it more or less in half). I tried the vegan chocolate fudge, which is fine. She had some of the snickerdoodles. I had a half of one of the portuguese buns with peanut butter. She wanted two hot dogs; I told her she could have a second one after an hour.