countdown: 23 hours until departure...

Tomorrow we leave NYC at 3, only to spend 5 hours laying over in Philly before we have an overnight flight to Shannon, Ireland. Thus far, we've had some fun adventures this side of the pond, including:

conducting the Mentos/Coke explosion experiment (as seen on TV/at the Albany Free School) with Billy's dad and brother Andy

seeing Manhattan from boat with Billy's mom and her boyfriend Alex


snooping around awesome chess shops in Greenwich Village

spending time with Billy's friend Wetzel and getting the full tour of the Red Bank/Little Silver, New Jersey area, where the two of them went to jail from ages 14-18. Oops, we mean school.

It's been absurdly hot: high 80s and 90s. The rumbling clouds outside becry a hopeful change in the weather. Meanwhile, I'm off to do one of the final pass-overs (again) to figure out what I can leave here. Photos of the above soon.

6/3/07 addition: finally, we've downloaded photos, so also included below are some pre-departure classic shots of hanging out with friends in Albany, the Skype command center at Billy's mom's house for contacting our foreign friends, packing, and Billy undertaking a massive change in appearance to impress upon the German authorities that we are, in fact, the beloved activists they invited to come to the G8 demonstrations (check out Corinne's jar full of Billy's hair... she keeps a jar for each one of her "clients"... an art project is pending...)