Irrepressible Perserverence

During the conference itself, work's going to put me up at one of the six hotels that we have blocks with (they're all super nice) but, obviously, afterwards I'm on my own.  I'll be working from Friday through Tuesday and we'll be checking out of the company hotel that Wednesday - and I'll need to rest, I'll be exhausted.

I think I'll go from whatever hotel AFP puts me up in to The Sylvia and I had been thinking about leaving on Saturday to go back home but I figure that Wednesday is going to be a complete wash.  Between the checking out, traveling, checking in and then sleeping the sleep of the exhausted, that would have left me with two days to poke around Vancouver.  So I think I'll take Wednesday as a day of rest, use Thursday through Saturday to be a tourist and then go home on Sunday.

I'm starting to get really, really excited about this.

(And then there's that whole work thing before hand, I guess. ;) )

Back from New York - I just finished dropping Lauren off at her apartment.  This was an amazing weekend, and while I wished I could have been there all Friday instead of just Friday night I don't feel like I missed out on anything.  Some of the best food I've ever had, great company, a little bit of drinking, sight seeing, Chicago was AMAZING.

For those who've seen Across the Universe, Carol Woods, the woman who sang "Let It Be", was the same woman who played Matron Mama Morton.  And she was wonderful.  In fact, the musical was just so freaking good and we had great seats.

So, basically:  I LOVE New York City and we'll certainly be going back.  Katie, Lauren and Ben were great company and getting to see Jazz made my day.  The food, both at the place in Little Italy and at Anthony Bourdain's (zomg, so worth the prices for both of those places), was amazing.  There was a zoo, central park, chilling and hanging out.  SO AWESOME.

I don't need googlemaps anymore!  *hugs TomTom*

Pictures from the recent trip to England. :)  I'm quite taken with a number of these shots, enough to ignore the few blurry ones. ;)