Well we made it in safe and have made it through our first day in New York. After waking up at the ungodly hour of 4:15, we made it to the airport by 6:30. I've never flown Midwest Airlines before, but their all business class seating is pretty much awesome. Two across seating, and there's actually a console between the two first-class size seats. It is awesome... Unfortunately, the only routes they fly that I might take advantage of are KC - Dallas and KC - Green Bay. They don't fly to Houston or to Chicago.

But we finally made it in to LaGuardia at around 11:00. We had to run by the workplace of our gracious host to pick up a key to the apartment, then it was over to Hell's Kitchen. We dropped our stuff off and headed to lunch. We ate at Tiny Thai, a Thai restaurant just up the street. It was good Thai food, though they didn't ask about heat levels, and I could have used mine just a bit spicier.

We then began our first day of wandering. Bex had a grooming appointment at 3:00, so we worked our way towards the salon, wandering by Central Park, then heading up 5th Avenue and back down Madison. After Bex's appointment we went and saw Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture at the Japan Society. It was an excellent exhibition that I don't have time to post my thoughts on right now.

From there we headed down to the UN and walked along the East River, then downtown to meet our hosts for dinner at 9th Street Market. I had a vegetable pot pie, and Bex had the pork chop. They were both excellent, though the service was less than stellar. We started dinner at 7:00 and weren't out of there until about 9:00, mainly because it took pretty much forever to get dessert and our check.

Then the big night, the MC Frontalot show at The Slipper Room. There was an absolutely terrible band on before The Front took the stage, but they finally stopped. (Doors covers? Ugh...) Frontalot had a crew of suitably nerdy looking fans there. Though the house was not packed, it was full enough that I had to give up my seat to be able to see the stage. Frontalot puts on an excellent live show, and I thought it was even better than the show he has available for download. He even played one song that I was not familiar with. The song was about a collectible card game that he played once called "Gather: The Dorkening".

But then waking up at 4:30 caught up to us, and we took a cab back to the apartment we're staying in. I was impressed by how much ground we covered yesterday. It took us quite a while to get home in a cab, but we had walked all the rest of the day. If I lived here, I probably would lose weight; Firstly because I'd walk more, and secondly because I wouldn't be able to afford food.

OK, it's time to head off to have a bagel with some lox. Hell yeah.