New York!

We've made it to the east coast, after both of us battled various illnesses in Vegas.

We went to the Stratosphere yesterday morning and went up the tower to check out the view. The roller coaster I went on last time is no longer there, and not many people were brave enough to go on the other rides, so it was a lot quieter than last time I visited it. We then caught the monorail the length of the strip back to the MGM for a quick nap as we were both feeling very run down.

The plan was to check out New York hotel and maybe ride their roller coaster that afternoon, but I battled to get out of bed. In the end we only barely had time to grab dinner before going to see Cirque du Soleil's show KA. It was absolutely amazing, with basically a 3-dimensional stage - they have two platforms that move back and forth and can even rotate through any axis, even past vertical, so they have a lot of freedom to do whatever they like. Unfortunately I had a migrane-like headache, and started to get the shakes and generally felt awful. I almost left half way through, but stuck it out because a) I wanted to see it, and b) we paid over $100USD per ticket!

Today we got up early, packed (again), and made our way to the airport. Everything was going fine - we got there with plenty of time to spare, the plane showed up on time, everything seemed set to go, then we heard the flight was delayed for up to 2 hours. There were some storms here in NY and they had to shut down one of the runways for a while, so the inbound flights were all backed up. Not wanting a repeat of their January problems, JetBlue decided to delay any flights to JFK that had not yet left so that people weren't stuck in planes again. While it was good to not be stuck in a plane, it was a little annoying not knowing exactly when we'd be on our way. They managed to find a spot in the schedule and got us in the air about 90 minutes late.

So we're now in New York, and have planned out our next few days - Central Park (including the zoo), NBC Studios, the Museum of Modern Art, Monty Python's Spamalot, Liberty and Ellis Islands, Times Square, and maybe the Empire State Building at night.

I think that's all the news for now. Wireless internet is free here, so the updates will come a bit more frequently over the next few days.

I <3 New York! :D