Hello Darlings!

Once again, greetings from New York. I've been here about 24 hours now and am exhausted. The flight last night went very smoothly. My companion made it to the airport about the same time I did, so there was no repeat of March's fiasco, and while the previous four flights to LaGuardia before ours were delayed, ours was on time. It's a good thing we left last night, apparently they got about 6 inches of snow today, which could make Sunday's return interesting. Still I'd rather be stuck in New York than in Chicago.

As I mentioned earlier, we're at the Holiday Inn Midtown, and it's actually much nicer than I expected. The lobby has been redone and is not nearly as 60's looking as the pictures on their website. The renovations haven't made it up to our floor though, the hallway coming away from the elevator is pretty ratty, but the room is huge and nice. I was hoping to ditch my companion this morning and get to Starbucks to see who might be waiting for me, but try as I might, he wouldn't cooperate, so sorry guys, maybe next time I told him to go down and get breakfast while I got ready, I said I'd meet him there after he got ready, but there was no getting rid of him, even for just a few minutes to run the two blocks over there, meet whoever was there, and duck into the bathroom for some makeout and maybe over the jeans/under the shirt action. Instead, my companion and I made it to B&H Photo (quite an experience, it really was total anarchy inside like an adult FAO Scheartz) and got my carryon laptpop bag, then hit Strand Books and had lunch next door, walked to NYU only to find the bookstore closed, returned to the hotel to drop off our purchases, walk through Central Park to the Neue Gallery to check out their bookstore, then the Met's giftshop, then returned to the hotel to change, had a great dinner at Petrossian, and then made it to the Met for War & Peace. It was a great, although rather long, production, a terrific first Met experience. All that in about 14 hours, no wonder I'm exhausted. It's off to bed now and tomorrow will be Colony Records and then Rock 'n Roll, dinner at Aquavit, and Make Me A Song. Oh, for Christmas I got Hairspray (the DVD), The Pirate Queen, and the 1996 revival of The King & I. I also got a good gift certificate to Borders, so there will be more. Anyways, good night and I'll let you know about the shows tomorrow night.