[Secret Squirrel] – Finalized plans for March 4th weekend

Matt Stratton | Feb 24, 2006 | 3 min read

Anyone is welcome to join for Sunday brunch or Sunday dinner. And if there’s anything cool going on Sunday night, let me know, since Carrie and I don’t have plans. Well, at least not that I know of.

Operation Carrielord

Saturday, March 4th

8:20 AM CST – Carrie and Matt are picked up at Carrie’s house by limo and taken to O’Hare.

10:00 AM CST – Carrie and Matt depart Chicago O’Hare on United Flight 676.

10:00 AM CST – Heather and Chris depart Chicago O’Hare on American Airlines flight 382.

1:00 PM EST – Heather and Chris arrive at New York La Guardia

1:04 PM EST – Matt and Carrie arrive at New York La Guardia

1:30 PM EST – Matt and Carrie depart La Guardia in a taxi

1:45 PM EST – After getting text message confirmation from Matt, Heather and Chris depart La Guardia in taxi

2:00 PM EST – Matt and Carrie check into Hotel Pennsylvania (401 Seventh Avenue (at 33rd St.))

2:45 PM EST – arrives at Rockefeller Center (30 Rockefeller Plaza) and goes up to third level of observation deck.

3:00 PM EST – Carrie and Matt arrive at Rockefeller Center and head up to third level of observation deck.

3:15 PM EST – Matt finds (as “tourist”) and asks him to take Carrie and Matt’s picture with Matt’s camera. This is the “signal” that the proposal is about to happen.

3:20 PM EST – After takes picture and walks away, he continues to take “tourist” pictures, which all happen to have Matt and Carrie in them. Matt proposes to Carrie.

5:00 PM EST – Matt and Carrie meet and (along with Tom, Heather, and Chris) for dinner at Mogador Café (101 Saint Marks Place – Between First Avenue and Avenue A)

9:00 PM EST – Matt, Carrie, Heather, Chris, and Tom head to Loki Lounge(304 5th Ave, Brooklyn) for party!

11:00 PM EST – is introduced to Carrie at the bar, and hands her an envelope with a few 8×10 prints of the proposal from earlier.

Sunday, March 5th

11:00 AM EST – Carrie, Matt, Heather, Chris, and Tom meet and (and whomever else would like to come) for brunch in DUMBO. to provide location.

12:00 Noon EST – Chris, Heather, Matt, and Carrie head back into Manhattan. Chris and Heather leave their bags at Matt and Carrie’s hotel.

2:00 PM EST – Carrie, Matt, Heather, and Chris go to see Avenue Q at Golden Theater (252 West 45th Street)

5:00 PM EST – Carrie, Matt, Heather, and Chris (and whomever else would like to join) have dinner someplace in Manhattan near Hotel Penn.

6:30 PM EST – Heather and Chris depart for La Guardia

8:00 PM EST – Heather and Chris depart La Guardia on American Airlines flight 357

Monday, March 6

12:30 PM EST – Matt and Carrie depart for La Guardia

1:55 PM EST – Matt and Carrie depart La Guardia on United flight 683

Cake – Stickshifts and Safetybelts