Miami madness

We got picked up by the Super Shuttle at 910am to head out to Newark International Airport for our flight down to Miami. We were scheduled to stop over in Charlotte for an 1hr before flying to Miami International Airport.

All went well until we in line to take off for the last leg to Miami when the captain said we were returning to the gate as we had a cracked window down the back of the plane. He then went on to advise us each passenger window is in fact 3 windows -1 cosmetic and 2 structural so this was a simple procedure to fix. We took off about 40 minutes later heading for Miami.

About 1/2 hr out of Miami we were told there were thunderstorms that were bad enough to have closed the airport and as we running low on gas we were diverted to Fort Myers. We stayed on the ground there until the thunderstorms had moved on and finally took off again to head to Miami. We finally landed, grabbed our bags, got the courtesy shuttle across the Interstate to the Hilton. Thoroughly exhausted we arrived at our destination at 910pm - some 12 hrs after we left Jacqui's apartment in New York.

A night on the town

We've just got back from a great night - went and saw Katie Holmes and John Lithgow in "All my Sons" on Broadway.

The lights in Time Square at night are amazing.

Off to Miami tomorrow - have got quite a lot of flying to do to get there so it'll be an early night - he says at 12:46am!

Natural History

We caught the train uptown and walked up the west side of Central Park and went to the Natural History museum.

After wards we headed down to the Apple store on 5th Ave and went to FA Swartz - the coolest toy store you'll ever see.

We're off for dinner up in Harlam tonight - will upload some photos tomorrow.

Power shopping

Got back to New York at about 10pm last night thoroughly exhausted from pounding the pavements at Woodbury Common - an outlet shopping mall north of New York. We were shopping non stop for 5 hours and barely touched all the stores. Every brand you could imagine was available, some at ridiculous prices. $10.50 shirts from Quicksilver, $30 Levis were among the bargains I grabbed.

There are some photos on flickr from the last few days. We're off now to go to the Natural History Museum and then off to the Apple Store on 5th ave.

New York on foot

We walked for miles today, all over Brooklyn, back across the bridge to downtown Manhattan which was really cool. The girls did some shopping at Daffy's - I snuck a few goodies into the bag too! Managed to navigate our way to Chinatown for some dinner and then checked out a few of the shops down there this evening. Really tired - but been a great day.

Sheryl and I took heaps of photos, we're uploading them to Flickr now.

Downtown in the Big Snapple

Had a great last few days in New York city. Find out more on Sheryl's blog.

I survived my first cab ride to Penn Station - quite an experience.

Have a look at all our photos.

Golden day in San Fran

Blogging down at the Apple store in downtown San Francisco cause we can. The Apple store is jam packed at 520pm in the afternoon - the new iPod Nano's are here - in their fancy chromatic colours.

The golden gate bridge was awesome - will post some photos tomorrow.

To do lists and prioritisation

Here I am at the 11th hour about to pack my bag for a month long holiday in the US.

I've refreshed my to do list, only 8 items still to do - totally under control - one of which includes trying to fix a leak in the pipes under our sink! Somehow I think I might not pull that one off.

Very timely to see an article on Particle Tree about prioritising feature development

The nations pride is restored

It was of the greatest games of all time between the All Blacks and Wallabies.

Carter showed his precision at converting the points and went across the line for one himself.

I knew we could come back from behind. Pretty nail biting at the end - how many times have we seen an Aussie sports team get ahead in the last minute - it was our night this time!

Spring is here

We had an awesome time going for a walk through Percy's Reserve yesterday. Check out our more of our photos

I've also started a flickr feed on my blog to share our photos while we are in the US. Just click on the flickr puzzle on the right to see our latest photos.

I also found a few old photos from a few years back - windsurfing at Eastbourne.