New York City

11:38- Waiting for Marlea to get back from work, trying to figure out this Yahoo! travel thing, let's hope it helps.

2:25- A van came and picked us up from Marlea's; good thing too, with all her luggage (okay, so it's for work).

2:45- Arrive at the airport, time to get our tickets and check our bags; only problem is Marlea's gotta check three bags, and that takes extra time (apparently this is a difficult task at Ft. Lauderdale Air Port).

3:40- Made it through secruity, and we're starving with 20 minutes until the plane leaves, run for airport Sbarro pizza (not bad, actually).

4:00- Plane has been delayed because they changed the type of plane without notifying anyone, so they have to update the seating chart.  Plus they say weather is gonna get bad at New York, so we gotta hurry so that we don't get delayed another hour or more. At least we have free wireless while we wait.

4:50- What good luck, we're getting on the plane.  What bad luck, our seats aren't together. What good luck, we're in first class. What good luck, the ornery Jewish man is willing to switch seats wth Marlea.

5:25- We're taking off!  Bu-bye South Florida, NYC, here we come! (Ah crap, the in-flight movie is 'Big Momma's House 2'; PSP, take me away.)

7:45- After a beautiful flight we start descending into ugly gray clouds (Hey, is that Jersey down there?)

8:00- And we have landed, time to get this trip really under way (or so we think).

8:45- Well, we finally have our bags, now it's time to wait in the mile-long taxi line.

9:20- While I'm on the phone, Marlea decides to take a personal taxi (a hispanic guy driving a rather nice Cadillac Escalade.)  We share it with four other people, two middle-aged Jewish couples traveling together (we caught up on all the gossip.)

10:00- We arrive in the pouring rain at the Affinia Dumont, out hotel for the weekend.  A very pleasent, very nicely dressed man greats us with a luggage cart and umbrella.  We get inside and begin the check-in process.  Wait, where's my camera?!  Did it fall off in the car, on the streets, ahh! After much stress and looking, William, the awesome doorman finds it.  It's soaking wet, but still functional and I've got it (the trip has been saved).

10:30- Wow, the room is quite nice (a full kitchean!).  Time to decompress a moment and then get some food.  William says the restaurant attatched to the hotel, 'The Barking Dog', is open until midnight, we'll go there.

11:30- We finally get our butts up and to the restaurant.  Small, but nice atmosphere, prices aren't horrendous (our total comes to $25).  Marlea get a vegetable sandwhich that she says is actually good.  I got a chicken dish that came with mashed potatoes and bread.  Turns out it also comes with some awesome corn, and two giant pieces of fried chicken (hello leftovers for the fridge.)

2:00?- Sleepy time.