Well on the upside, I just did an *awesome* quest chain in Icecrown.
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The ghost of a child essentially showed me Arthas' ascent to being the Lich King after his arrival in Northrend; and I helped Tirion destroy his heart. That was pretty cool < ._.>
Sadly there isn't a whole lot left for me to do in Northrend, so I've moved on to Mount Hyjal; which is *WAY* the heck more busy than every other zone I've been in up to this point. Up till this point, outside of Orgrimmar, running into more than a couple players has been an extreme rarity. now there's tons of folks around <@.@> Just kind of all of the sudden. Does everyone hang out in Hyjal or something? Just seemed like a strange place for things to suddenly get very busy.