3:45. Alarm goes off. Uggh. Stagger out of bed, can't really remember much of what happened between then and the airport. Watched my bro get on his plane, had a few more hours to kill. Saw Mrs. VA and her husband in the coffee shop, waited, slept, waited, finally got on the plane to NYC. My dad took the free 1st class upgrade he got with his frequent flyer card, so I had an extra seat next to me to stretch out in.

Plane got in around 4, got to our hotel in the meat packing district of Manhattan around 5. It looks like a nice hotel... in a few months. They havent finished building it yet, so we were probably the only people there. After looking around the hotel, we went out and explored the Greenwitch Village area and Washington Square, the center of NYU (NYU doesnt really have a "campus," its just a collection of buildings in generally the same area.) After dinner we went out to Times Square, quite an amazing place at night. Everything is lit up, there are dozens of giant video billboards surrounding the road. MTV studios, a really big Toys R Us, a military recruiting station with a really, really birght display, and a bunch of other business type places and entertainment places. After exploring the square, it was back to the hotel, where we found that the AC didnt work and that the sofa bed was still wrapped in plastic. Greaaaaat. At least I know that bed is "clean" if you know what I mean... Ha! Not a bad night, but not too great. Something exploded in my shaving kit, so its covered in goo.