New York trip booked

We've just finished booking our next trip. We depart Chicago, late afternoon April 18 and arrive New York that evening. Staying at the Days Inn (sort of like a Holiday Inn thing) in North Bergen which is not on the island coz everything on the island, including hostels are so frakkin' expensive I don't know how you could possibly afford it! As soon as we started looking for places off the island, the prices dropped by over 50%.

We decided to go that weekend so that we could attend the New York Comic Convention on the Saturday. In true geekly fashion, we're totally stoked about that. :) Then we hope to do some general New York sightseeing on the Sunday, Monday and Tuesday morning. And then trek back to the airport Tuesday afternoon, so Sameer can be back in Chicago to prep for his classes.


Our biggest regret in the planning stages was that we couldn't get tickets to go see Conan O'Brien. Unfortunately, his show is booked out six months in advance. We could potentially have queued early in the morning to get some of the tickets they reserve to give away on the day but they don't shoot the show on a Monday, only Tuesdays through Thursday, and even if we could get last minute tickets we're leaving too early on Tuesday to attend the taping that day. :(