I shall not succumb to jet-lag! I shall not.

The flight to the States yesterday was an odyssey. First one engine wouldn't start and they sent an engineer to try to fix it, and then an hour later we taxied back to the gate so they could take the starter motor from another pane's engine and replace ours. In the end we left with three and a half hours delay, and got into Newark at 10pm local time, 4am my body's time. =__=

Today I took the NJ Transit train into New York City to mee up with Grace/Nicola/[info]scintillae (she of many names) for a few hours. It was so good to see her again! ♥ ♥ We had some super fun times together.

FIrst we went to the Rockefeller Center. We poked around the NBC store for a bit (The BSG merchandise was all really lame. Yes, you invented a swearword. Very good. Now design me some t-shirts more interesting than "frak off" in white text on a black background), and then we went to the Top of the Rock observation platform.

















There's this great light-room at the top. Different-coloured lights follow you around the room:





There's a screen in one corner that tracks your movement:





We spent ages playing around in there; it was so cool.

The lights! The colours! from Hellen on Vimeo.



After a while we reluctantly descended and made our way to Times Square for some photo opportunities:


MySpace style picture! XD





I also got to see the sparkliest McDonalds in the world:


(Grace calls it the McGlambert.)


In conclusion:

That's what she said.


Right, I think it's time for me to listen to some more of my Discworld audio book and thengo to sleep.
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