Just off the phone with Santa and they are bailing off their regional Jet in Boston (boarded 30 min ago). Per Plan “C” they are heading to the Boston South Amtrak station to see if they can hitch a ride to New York Penn Station.

I really want Grumpy to do some stuff in Times Square — so lets see if we can get him to Manhattan for the night.

Santa says the pilot was warning of airport closures in Boston and New York — so I told them to jump off and find a cab while they still can to the train station — the amazing race to Manhattan starts now…

There are moments when you simply step back and say to yourself, “This isn’t really happening. This can’t be real life.”

Last night, I had such a moment. Here’s what happened:

Our flight from New Hampshire to Philadelphia was delayed for well over two hours

The plane was there, the crew was ready, but weather in Philly was holding things up. We had a great time with the Southwest crew during the delay, but we (along with FareCompare HQ) were monitoring the US Airways flight I was supposed to catch from Philadelphia to Providence, Rhode Island (PVD).

Would Rhode Island become my…Waterloo???

You won’t believe how hard I’ve been working. Putting together a trip of this magnitude is horribly difficult (66-flights, 25,000-miles, 48-states, all in 12-days). And most of it falls on me.

Grumpy Santa can’t help; he’s too busy trying to make his planes under crushing deadlines. Santa’s “little” pal, Elf can’t help, because, well…he’s…useless.

But I do have a “secret weapon”, to aid me in this tremendous quest: the really secret part is, she’s my daughter Stef, and she’s just 7-years old. But watch her go!

We finally have all the tickets purchased and are set to roll — one small problem, we have to figure out all sorts of logistics for getting our Santa to hotels, how is he going to pack with only 2 carry ons and tons of equipment for video blogging, how are we going to video blog, the list it turns out to be a full conference room white board worth.

I think we have it figured it out, but I think we came close to losing our minds along the way. Here’s how it will work…