Headed to Beijing

June 23rd, 2013.  We, (Maureen, Mimi, Mackenzie, and myself(Dave)), got up this morning at 2:15am with the plan that a town car we booked would be in the dark driveway at 3am to drive us to Boston's Logan airport for our 5:45am flight to Washington DC's Dulles airport.  That sentence reminded me of UAHS 10th grade English where my teacher put a red slash through my run on sentences.  I promptly took my bag out into the driveway at 2:59am and introduced myself to the driver who had shown up early at 2:50am.  His name was also Dave, and he seemed to be very friendly and a bit talkative.  In fact he must of spent the past two years in solitary confinement as he really needed someone to talk to?  After a lot of coaxing, I was able to get Mackenzie, and then Maureen, and finally Mimi into the car for our trip to Logan.  It was now 3:35am.  We had promised to each other the night before we would leave by 3:15am.  One mile down Mack Hill Rd, still in Amherst, NH,  Mimi declared she had forgotten her camera battery charger and that we needed to turn around and go back.  We turned around and headed back up Mack Hill and ten seconds later Mimi let out an embarrassed gasp, "Oh God, I do have my charger."  Turn and head back towards Boston.  I kept thinking I sure would like a cup of coffee right now, while the Dave the very nice driver, drove very slow and talked non stop like he had drank ten cups of coffee right before getting to the Patten house.  Forty minutes later with a low level, "Oh Shit!",  Mimi declared that she had forgotten her drivers license.  At this point, we all felt a little panicked, as there was probably not enough time to turn around and go back, unless Maureen was driving.  I thought for a second and realized we didn't need her driver's license because we had her passport.  We went on to airport and caught our flight to DC where we were told we could use the United Club with our Platinum American Express card.  We showed up at the club at 7:45am where the desk jockey told us we could not come in.  We are now sitting in an empty gate with a five hour wait for our flight to Beijing.  And by the way Mimi did have her driver's license but only told Maureen.