Settling In

Yesterday evening when we got to the Vancouver airport, we discovered that the America West plane to Vegas was about three hours late. This meant that we wouldn't have been able to make our connection to Newark. After one false try, we were finally booked on an Air Canada flight via Toronto. "Oh good," we thought, "they still serve meals!" We got into Newark about 40 minutes later than our original flight would have put us there.

We then hopped on a bus to Grand Central Station and walked to where we were staying. The transportation got us there too early to check into the Vanderbilt YMCA but we left the bags, ate in an Indian restaurant and walked a few blocks to the United Nations Building.



After a nap, bought one week, unlimited-travel MTA cards for the subway system. We walked to Grand Central and took the Shuttle to Times Square.

Eventually, we went to see Jay's brother who works nights. I'd not seen Piyatissa since visiting Sri Lanka in the 1980's. It's now after midnight. Yawn.