Catman, is there any chance of you moving up the Soup Do by two hours?
Here's my situation -- I will be staying in a Manhattan hotel from June 8 to June 12. At 5 pm, I will be picking up a car from Hertz. If I wait until 8 pm for the Soup Do to start, we will probably get out around 10 pm, and then I will have an hour drive to my new hotel (near JFK). That gets us (the UIG will be with me) to the hotel at 11 pm, we will have to check in and by the time we unpack and get to bed it will be close to midnight.
If the Soup Do were to start at 6 pm, it would be much more workable for us.