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Don't Miss Your Plane
Start Date: April 5, 2024 -
May 16, 2025
Roll#1
Start Space: START
Rolled: 5
Landed on: 5. Next morning catch a ferry out to Staten Island.
Read a book set on an island.
Book Read:Love Finds You in Prince Edward Island, Canada by Susan Page Davis (4/20/24)
Roll#2
Start Space: 5
Rolled: 1
Landed on: 6. Go to the Staten Island Zoo but a lion gets loose when you are there. Go back two spaces to 4.
4. After dinner take a walk to Times Square.
Read a book which the first letter of each word in the title can be found in TIMES SQUARE. (Three word minimum).
Book Read: Second Time Around by Melody Carlson (5/12/24)
Roll#3
Start space:4
Rolled:4
Landed on: 8. Get a dosa ( giant crepe) from Dosa Garden. Read a book that is culinary.
Book Read: Serving Up a Sweetheart: A February Wedding Story by Cheryl Wyatt (6/21/24)
Roll#4
Start space: 8
Rolled: 1
Landed on: 9. Walk over the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to get to Brooklyn. Read a book with a bridge on the cover.
Book read:
Roll#5
Start space: 9
Rolled: 6
Landed on: 15. After dinner take a carriage ride through Central Park. Read a book with a horse on the cover.
Book read:
Roll#6
Start space: 15
Rolled: 5
Landed on: 20. Go for dinner at the Tavern on the Green. Read a book that has a green cover.
Book read:
Roll #7
Start space: 20
Rolled: 6
Landed on: 26. Grab some food at a delicatessen.
Read a book where a character goes out for a meal.
Book read: Daffodils in March by Clare Revell (8/10/24)
Roll #8
Start space: 26
Rolled: 6
Landed on: 32. Take a view of the city by going to the Top of the Rock observation deck.
Read a book that is set in a city.
Book Read: What Was the San Francisco Earthquake? by Dorothy Hoobler (8/10/24)
Roll#9
Start space: 32
Rolled: 3
Landed on: 35. Tired of walking take a ride on the subway.
Read a book with a train on the cover.
Book Read:
Roll#10
Start space: 35
Rolled:1
Landed on: 36. Jump off the subway and go see some art at the Guggenheim Museum.
Read a book tagged as art or with a piece of art on the cover. (Show the cover)
Book read: Who Was Salvador Dalí?
Roll#11
Start Space: 36
Rolled: 6
Landed on: 42. Hungry again. Then grab a falafel at Mamoun’s.
Read a book where the MC's initials can be found in MAMOUNS.
Book read: Line by Line by Jennifer Delamere (9/17/24) - MC - Alice McNeil
Roll#12
Start space: 42
Rolled: 5
Landed on: 47 Rent a boat and go for a ride in a paddle boat or a kayak on Meadow Lake.
Read a book with a boat on the cover.
Book Read:
Roll#13
Start Space: 47
Rolled: 5
Landed on: 52. On the ferry away from Liberty Island your wallet goes overboard. You have to replace all your credit cards. Go back 12 spaces to 40.
40. Take a stroll over to the Comedy Cellar and catch a comedy show.
Read a book that is tagged as humor.
Book Read: Junie B., First Grader: Shipwrecked by Barbara Park (10/12/24)
Roll #14
Start space: 40
Rolled: 2
Landed on: 42. Hungry again. Then grab a falafel at Mamoun’s.
Read a book where the MC's initials can be found in MAMOUNS.
Book Read: The Blackout Book Club by Amy Lynn Green
Avis Montgomery - MC (11/22/24)
Roll #15
Start Space: 42
Rolled: 3
Landed on: 45. After the museum head over to Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
Read a book that has a scene at a park.
Book Read: The Lady and the Highwayman bySarah M. Eden (1/4/25) - Regent's Park
Roll #16
Start Space: 45
Rolled: 2
Landed on: 47 Rent a boat and go for a ride in a paddle boat or a kayak on Meadow Lake.
Read a book with a boat on the cover.
Book read:
Roll #17
Start space: 47
Rolled: 4
Landed on: 51. Take the ferry out to Liberty Island to see the Statue of Liberty.
Read a book about freedom. (Your interpretation) Or read a book set in France.
Book Read: The Captive Maiden by Melanie Dickerson (2/20/25) - Gisela was set free from her step mother and step sisters
Roll#18
Start space: 51
Rolled: 6
Landed on: 57. Stroll over to Jumel Terrace and look at some of the historical houses.
Read a book set in the 1800s.
Book read: The Gentleman and the Thief by Sarah M. Eden (2/22/25) - London 1865
Roll #19
Start space: 57
Rolled: 5
Landed on: 62. Get an Island Orchard Cider with Bulleit Bourbon and a fresh cinnamon stick at Little Eva's.
Read a book that a character drinks cider (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #) or a book with a character called Eva.
Book Read:Love in the Balance by Regina Jennings (3/26/25) - Pg. 156 - "Ah, warm cider. ... Bailey had to force a few swallows down ..."
Roll #20
Start space: 62
Rolled: 4
Landed on: 66. While in Harlem go visit the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Read a book written by an African American.
Book Read: Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen? by Sherri L. Smith (4/5/25)
Roll #22
Start space: 66
Rolled: 3
Landed on: 69. Have a meal at the Red Rooster Harlem.
Read a book with a red cover.
Book Read:
Roll #23
Start space: 69
Rolled: 4
Landed on: 73. Take a stroll and window shop on Fifth Avenue. (No one can afford those prices)
Read a book that is fifth in a series.
Book Read: The Text Before Christmas by Delancey Stewart (5/11/25) - Digital Dating #5
Roll#24
Rolled: 5
FINISHED