New York: Day One Hundred and Forty-One (8 March)

Unfortunately we spent most of today travelling. Our cousin gave us a lift to the airport where we bought sandwiches because food isn't served on internal domestic flights (even though it takes five hours to fly from San Francisco to New York).

We were even more glad we'd got them after we'd boarded the plane and were delayed for an hour and a half. JFK airport was closed due to bad weather but the crew showed us an extra DVD (The Nanny Diairies) to help pass the time.

We eventually took off at 3.20pm and landed at 11.25pm (local time). The Supershuttle bus took us into the city to our hotel (The New York Helmsley), where we found we'd been upgraded to a city view. We got to bed in our room on the 37th floor at 1.45am!

We were very tired.

Barnaby