Here we go

New York. Warm, humid but cloudy. You never get this atmosphere in Finland – maybe it’s the big city smell?

Flight wasn’t too bad. I actually got some sleep, with my “shades” and some peaceful music. There was some terrible turbulence though. I really didn’t enjoy that. It was very suspicious: outside it was all nice and sunny but the plane was jumping like hell. And there were no announcements or anything…

The traffic in New York is chaotic – we’d never taken a cab or a bus before but now we took the Super Shuttle to Manhattan. Very South European :) And also the way how the driver (well, he probably _was_ Italian) stuffed more people into the van than there were supposed to be.

“Driver’s tips are not included in your voucher” – “so what – if the guy like starts telling you what to see in New York you’ve gotta tell him to shut up if you don’t want to pay extra?” Yeah, it took me a while to realize the sign was talking about tip for the driver… :D

Now I’ve got to figure out a way to stay awake for some 5 more hours (I’ve already been awake for 17, and slept only about 5 hours last night). Way to go.