NYC....

Journey from Vegas to NYC was pretty uneventful really - which is of course what you want!  My luggage arrived safe and sound this time and we got more or less straight into a taxi.
H was at T7 and stuck in hours of passport control queues (just like J and Ilya had been the day before) but because we were on an internal flight, we just sailed threw.  She sounded shattered and said that she was just going to go to her hotel and catch up with us the next day.

Our 'Washington Square Hotel' is lovely and in such a great location.  We checked in, freshened up and then headed straight out onto Bleeker St to the Blind Tiger bar..
It was heaving but then it was 11.30pm on a Saturday night!  We managed to find a table and then sat there in anticipation of being able to meet up with J and I....and then they arrived!  It was so exciting to see them as it always is but seeing them in NYC was just double exciting.
They had also met up with a couple of friends from Miami that they had met previously (via Johnna & Nina in Omaha)..  Erin and Richard were fab, really lovely and good fun.
We headed on from Blind Tiger to a couple of other bars (once they had let J in - he kept getting ID'd and didn't have anything on him) and ended up in a little bar called Arthurs Tavern. It was small, crammed full and loud but it was great. They had a live band on that played a bit of everything and played it very well.
We only had a couple of drinks in there as it was now pushing on past 3am and one by one we trickled off back to our respective hotels for much needed sleep..  though Dan and I did go via a sandwich shop as we hadn't eaten since the plane..!!