Detour

We finally made it to NY only about 6 hours ago. There was a crazy ice-storm in Montreal and Jeremy and I spent most of yesterday sitting in the Calgary airport. We arrived in Montreal at around 11:30 (obviously missing our connecting flight to NY). However; I was able to see Emilie and Melissa, my two friends whom I met in Malaysia and travelled through parts of India with. What a lovely treat it was! We slept at Emilie's house and in the morning went to Melissa's for some breakfast (Montreal Bagels of course!) and then got to the airport to find out our flight had been delayed, yet again for a couple of hours. Air Canada bites ass (it wasn't there fault for the weather, but regardless). As we waited in this huge gigantic line-up that was poorly organized, they announced over the speakers, "thanks for your patience and inconvenience". Riiight. Whatever happened to the gross free airplane food?



So, I've had one evening here so far. And in response to Al's latest mystery photo... I was just there! Times Square. It's bloody cold here! Crazy windy, but all 68cm of snow has already melted, you'd never be able to tell that they had a record snowfall less than a week ago. On the bus ride to our hotel, we passed through Harlem and I saw the famous Appollo Theatre. How cool is that? I saw that Roberta Flack's going to be performing there. I've gotta see when she's there, I'd love to go. I wasn't expecting to have internet here, but luckily there's a wireless network that my laptop can hook up to.

No Backpack Required.

Ahhh.... reading week! No school, no work until Feb. 27. Until then, I'll be taking a bite outta the ol' Big Apple. Yep, New York. I leave in the morning and have 9 days of holidays.

Jeremy and I have booked a couple of broadway shows, a Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning play called "Doubt" starring Ron Eldard, and Disney's Beauty and the Beast.

We also booked this free intimate tour, given by local New York volunteer who want visitors to feel at ease in their city. It will just be Jeremy, myself and Ton Von De Broek, who will take us around his own neighborhood and show us around areas that we're interested in. Not like the Statue of Liberty and stuff, but like local stuff. Cool eh?

Then we're also off to Maryland for ONE very long day. I'm going to finally meet my friend Karen from Florida who is going to school in Baltimore right now. We've been corresponding over the net for 8 years, it all started off when we met on a "Party of Five" bulletin board. She's then graciously going to drive us to a near city, Rockville so I can visit my Aunt for the rest of the day.

We also might have David Letterman tix, they called us yesterday and left a message. I returned the call this evening, I hope it's not too late to get the seats. If not, perhaps we'll line up for standby tix.

Okay, I'm off. I'll be leaving the minus 20 weather to enter a city covered in 2 feet of snow!