Who in their right mind would leave Vegas?

A kinda loaded question when you think about it. Easily posed as who in their right mind would go to Vegas? And though it's a weird kinda place, the weather was awesome!!!

We arrived in New York on Thursday night after a long and tedious commute and well it's freezing here. The news report suggested that snow is imminent tonight. Good times he he.

When we last left off, we were headed to see a Vegas 'cabaret' show. I guess if the Suicide Girls' performances can be viewed as cabaret, then so can this. And the music featured at an SG show was nothing to brag about. I forget what this one was called but it was enjoyable enough and considering how tacky Vegas it, the show was more tasteful than I expected once it had commenced.

Here's a nice pic of me and Sigfried and Roy.

So we left the hotel in Vegas at 9.30AM and arrived at the airport not long after. We had an 11.26 flight and due to poor weather in NY (though we saw no evidence of that) we didn't get off the ground till a little after 1PM. Long story short, we got here to our hotel in NY at close to 10PM and we were both a little T.O'd by that. But life goes on.

We have been doing some shopping over the last two days. Finally found some decent record stores and hit St. Marks place which sadly seems to be losing much of what made it a worthwhile attraction. A guy from MySpace told me about a little underground store called Hospital Productions. He said it was down a ladder under a Reggae store. He wasn't lying... it literally was down a ladder. Never seen anything like that! Even found an Atomizer record in there. Ha, is that a good thing?

Stumbled across a great vegetarian restaurant around 3rd St yesterday and we ordered our first, and probably our only, pizza pie last nite. Even had it delivered to our room in the hotel... how cosmopolitan.
We bought some cool hand cut stencil artworks today and this cool framed print from some street vendors near Union Square, and these things are so great and so cheap! It's almost hard to take these pieces from people for such small amounts of money. Tragic that you could easily pay $5 for a cup of coffee, and $10 for a great piece of art. We also picked up a kick ass turntable bathmat from a store called Trash and Vaudeville... Great stuff!

We went down to times square tonite and had a lousy dinner. At least we offset it by a great lunch from a Thai place on 8th st today. Times Square was absolutely crazy tonite. sooooooo many people.

We're gonna head down to Central Park tomorrow. Seems a tidy Sunday thing to do. There is a musical production of Xanadu on at the moment and we're definitely gonna see that. Can't wait. That movie rules, so how good is the Broadway Musical gonna be? I know!!!

Michelle is feeling really homesick at the moment, and we are both missing Norman. Hopefully he'll forgive us for abandoning him he he.


More soon.

Jason