Emily's Trip so far

Hi everyone, we arrived in the US safe and well, however quite jetlagged. Las Vegas was great, as to be expected. The Follies show was gorgeous, lots of Vegas showgirls showing their bits :) There were even guys in the show but that wasn't so exciting as they were probably gay, and didn't show their bits. Penn and Teller was great, they do an amazing magical show and really take the micky out of magicians. I was lucky enough to be selected to perform a magic trick with Teller, it was so cool, it was a large piece of cardboard which he rolled into a cone and I held, he then dropped in a scarf and tapped it with his wand, I then let go of the cone and sparkles went everywhere and the scarf had disappeared, I have no idea what happened.

While Steve was in Santa Clara I amused myself with a facial and some shopping and general siteseeing, and of course, a little bit of pokie fun. No luck though.

LA was good, it was a lot prettier than last time. I caught the Metro into Hollywood and check out the Chinese Theatre and other Hollywood type stuff. Wonderful Steve found me a wife at the NANOG conference and Jenifer kindly invited me to spend the day in Santa Monica with her cousin Megan, who lives in Orange County (not far from Newport for all you OC fans). We had a fantastic day, it really is very beautiful on the coast.

The flight from LA to NY was OK, we had some extremely loud American woman talk the whole way to some poor guy sitting next to her. Thankfully we had some nice Aussies sitting behind us.

NY has been amazing, I could live here, despite it being VERY cold, 10 degrees today. We have been uptown and visited the Natual Science Museum, their animal displays where incredible. We've been downtown to Times Square, Brooklyn, Staten Island Ferry, did a tour of the UN, that was very interesting, we went to a jazz club tonight in Greenwich Village and also a comedy club. They were great, and we have eaten some great Cuban and Italian food. Our hotel overlooks Central Park and the horse drawn carriages are across the street. We have done lots of walking and caught the subway. We will be doing some shopping tomorrow and visiting a couple more museums before heading off to a broadway show.