Day One! Saturday, 11/22/08

This day starts late the evening before!

Depart / Phoenix
11:35pm - we board the Continental Flight #CO434 to New York: We will need to be at the airport an hour and a half a head.

Arrive / New York (Newark)
6:15am - We land in Newark Airport. Cool Michelle has graciously booked us a hotel right by Newark airport for showering and resting... For those who need that kind of pagan ritual : ) If you need to sleep and relax we have the available... I am telling her to get just one room, as I think that will be plenty for us. We can also leave our stuff in the hotel room while we head over to New York for a couple of hours. The cost of the hotel room is going to be about $50 per person / this is dependent on how many rooms we get.

For those who are interesting in going into New York City; as most of you haven't been there before, I thought we would go to Time Square, Central Park (Temple) and Ground Zero. I also recommend we go to Rocco's Pastry as it is the best in NY! (roughly $15 for transportation / $2.50 for the best eclair you'll eat ever!)


Roccos

Me and my sister in NY (central park)

Michelle is checking with the hotel about getting some type of transportation across to JFK. However, it is my opinion that it will be pretty expensive to take all of us from Newark airport to JFK... however, IF WE ARE ALL PACKED MARGINALLY LIGHT... i can get use across to JFK easily for around $20-25. However, we will need to leave Newark fairly early because we need 3 hours to get through all the international stuff at JFK.

2:00pm - Leave Newark Airport for JFK (by whatever means we decide)

3:40pm - Arrive at JFK international terminal. Remember to keep your passport with you.

Depart / New York (JFK)
6:40pm - Depart JFK for Ireland EI Aer Lingus # E1 0110

Arrive / Ireland (Shannon)
5:55am - Land in Ireland

There is no getting around that this is going to be a long day slash couple of days... I can't stress this enough how much better it will be for you if you pack light : ) You're not going to want to be carrying 100 pounds of luggage. Consequently, I am not going to want to be helping you carry around 100 pounds of luggage. Your going to hear this reoccurring theme through our the next week on this blog... anyone who wants light packing lessons I am more then happy to help.

Also, please sharing this blog with your families so they can have an idea of our plans in case they need to be able to get a hold of you for whatever reason. I will try to post as much helpful information as possible.